Dongting

See also: dòngtīng and dòngtíng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 洞庭 (Dòngtíng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ.tɪŋ/, /dɒŋ-/

Proper noun

Dongting

1. A lake in Hunan, China.
   • [1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 39:

     The Tung-ting-hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yang-tsze-keang. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting-hoo to the city of Woo-chang-Foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yang-tsze-keang lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, north and south of the lakes.]

   • [1833 [1832 June], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[2], 2nd edition, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 39:

     The Tungting hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yangtsze keäng. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting hoo to the city of Woochang foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yangtsze keäng lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, meaning north and south of the lakes.]

   • [1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea‎^[3], Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 400‎^[4]:

     The creeks of Hsin-ho K’ou and Tiao-kuan K’ou communicate with the N. of Lake Tung-t’ing.]

   • [1943 May 11 [1943 May 10], “CHINESE STILL FIRM ON TUNGTING SHORES; Japanese Said to Have Made No Decisive Gains in Day”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 November 2023, page 8‎^[6]:

     The Chinese High Command announced tonight that fighting was continuing on the north shore of Tungting Lake, in Northern Hunan, and south of the Yangtze River, in Southern Hupeh, where the Japanese scored no decisive successes during the past twenty-four hours. Enemy attempts to land on the south shore of Tungting Lake again were repulsed.]

   • [1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[7], volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:

     The Yangtze and its chief tributary, the Han, meander in great loops past a maze of shallow lakes, the chief of which, the Tung-t'ing Hu, lies just south of the border of Hunan.]

   • 2011 June 14, Coco Liu, “China's Drought Threatens Farm Income, Drinking Water, Wildlife and Hydropower”, in The New York Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 February 2021, Climatewire‎^[9]:

     "Because of the drought, what used to be a lake is now dry land," said Liu Jinghua, a woman living by China's second-largest freshwater lake -- Dongting -- which has lost two-thirds of its water over the past few months.

   • 2017 July 7, “Flooding in southern China causes deaths, damage and anger”, in The Washington Post‎^[10], sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 7, 2017, Asia & Pacific‎^[11]:

     Water levels in the Xiangjiang have exceeded records set during 1998’s catastrophic flooding along the Yangtze, China’s mightiest river of which the Xiangjiang is a major tributary. Levels in Dongting lake, one of China’s largest freshwater water bodies, have also risen into the danger zone.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dongting.

Translations

lake

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洞庭 (zh) (Dòngtíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongting”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[12], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1044, column 3