Poyang

English

Alternative forms

  • Po-yang, P'o-yang

Etymology

From Mandarin 鄱陽 / 鄱阳 (Póyáng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pōʹyängʹ, pǔʹyängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Poyang

  1. A lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, the country's largest freshwater lake.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Poyang Lake”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1513, column 2: “(pōʹyängʹ), Chinese P’o-yang Hu (pǔʹyängʹho͞oʹ),”
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