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Pinyin: húEnglish Definition: lake; Classifiers: 个 Chinese Definition: ①陆地上聚积的大水：湖泊。湖泽。湖滩。湖荡。湖光山色。
②指中国湖北省和湖南省：两湖。湖广。
③指中国湖州(旧地名，在今浙江省吴兴县)：湖笔。湖绉。Total strokes: 12;
Radical: 水 Pictophonetic:
胡 indicates the sound;
氵 (water) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
- ⿰ Left to right
- 氵 [ shuǐ ] water
- 胡 [ hú ] recklessly, foolishly; wildly
Example Words:
湖南 [
hú nán ]: Hunan province in south central China, abbr.
湘 , capital Changsha
长沙 湖北 [
hú běi ]: Hubei Province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr.
鄂 西湖 [
xī hú ]: Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou
杭州 , Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county
苗栗县 , northwest Taiwan
江湖 [
jiāng hú ]: rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.
武侠 ); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
Example Sentences- 我的学校在一个小湖的旁边。
My school is near a small lake.
- 在我们的结婚周年纪念日的那个晚上我们去了在湖对岸的一家小餐馆。
On the night of our anniversary we went to a small restaurant on the other side the lake.
- 我们在花园里有一个很大的水池，但他们却有一个巨大的湖！
We have a large pool in the garden, but those guys have a huge lake!
- 我们穿过一个小湖来到他的另一边就是这个破败的小村落了。
We came across a small lake to one side of which was this deserted and ramshackle village.
- 我们为什么不在后海就餐呢？在湖上？
Why not have dinner at Houhai – on the lake?
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