Dongting

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

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ.tɪŋ/, /dɒŋ-/

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, 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 [June 1832], 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, volume I, number 2, Second edition, 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, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 400‎:

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

   • [1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, 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, Liu, Coco, “China's Drought Threatens Farm Income, Drinking Water, Wildlife and Hydropower”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 February 2021, Climatewire‎:

     "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.

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

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