Lake Dian

English

Alternative forms

• Dian Lake
• Lake Tien (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 滇池 (Diānchí)

Proper noun

Lake Dian

1. A lake in Yunnan, China, near Kunming
   • 1980, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou”, in Ancient China: Art and Archaeology‎^[1], London: Book Club Associates, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:

     The chapter will therefore range much more widely than the previous ones, to take in places and events as diverse as the bronzes cast near the shores of Lake Dian in Yunnan province in the south-west, and the Tagar culture in the Yenisei valley in southern Siberia.

   • 2021 November 16, “'The water is poison': Chinese activist spends life protecting polluted lake”, in France 24‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 November 2021‎^[3]:

     The 74-year-old strident campaigner has spent his life trying to protect the sprawling Lake Dian in southwestern China, challenging businesses to clean up their act around the local beauty spot and reporting those who pollute it. […] But a plan to divert fresh water to Lake Dian from the Yangtze river 400 kilometres away will take years to complete.

Synonyms

• Dianchi Lake
• Kunming Lake

Translations

lake

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滇池 (zh) (Diān Chí)

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• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tien Chih”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 3: “Sometimes called Tien Hu or Kunyang Hu.”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dian Chi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1015, column 2

Anagrams

• Dian Lake