Tianshuihai

English

Map including Tianshuihai

Alternative forms

• Tien Shui Hai, T’ien-shui-hai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 甜水海 (Tiánshuǐhǎi).

Proper noun

Tianshuihai

1. A lake in Hotan County, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China, part of the disputed Aksai Chin.
   • 1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan‎^[1], Seattle: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:

     On a vast, dry lakebed called Tianshuihai, we came to a community of sorts, a desperate huddle of concrete and mud structures. My map labeled the region “Soda Plain,” and it seemed a long time since any water had gathered there. It was also, evidently, earthquake country. Buildings, many of them abandoned, had been shaken off their foundations; their walls had cracked and roofs fallen in. The military post and gas depot where Qu stopped to refuel had been shored up by heavy concrete buttresses. Thousands of fifty-gallon drums littered the ground, along with broken machinery, derelict vehicles, chunks of concrete, goat carcasses, cans, bottles, and shit.

   • 2004, Tom Grace, The Secret Cardinal‎^[2], Perseus Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 265:

     Woo and Gong had flown out of Tianshuihai and were patrolling a section of the border where China abutted the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, including the disputed region of Askai^{[sic – meaning Aksai]} Chin that was under Chinese control.
     "Could you imagine being posted to this place?" Gong asked.

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

Translations

lake in Aksai Chin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜水海 (Tiánshuǐhǎi)