湖 (hú)
Lake.
How 湖 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 湖
- Simplified
- 湖 (unchanged)
Common words using 湖
- 江湖 jiānghú
- rivers and lakes; around the whole country; cf 两江 and 两湖, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan provinces in Qing times
- 湖南 húnán
- Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙[Chang2 sha1]
- 五湖四海 wǔhúsìhǎi
- all over the world; everywhere under the sun
- 千島湖 qiāndǎohú
- Qiandao Lake
- 南湖 nánhú
- Nanhu district of Jiaxing city 嘉興市|嘉兴市[Jia1 xing1 shi4], Zhejiang
- 天鵝湖 tiānéhú
- Swan Lake
- 太湖 tàihú
- Taihu lake near Wuxi City 無錫|无锡, bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China's largest fresh water lakes, currently heavily polluted
- 平湖 pínghú
- Pinghu county level city in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jia1 xing1], Zhejiang
- 東湖 dōnghú
- Donghu district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi
- 淡水湖 dànshuǐhú
- fresh water lake
- 湖北 húběi
- Hubei province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂, capital Wuhan 武漢|武汉
- 湖北省 húběishěng
- Hubei province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂, capital Wuhan 武漢|武汉
湖 in a sentence
我們租了一艘船在湖上欣賞風景。
Wǒmen zū le yìsōu chuán zài húshàng xīnshǎng fēngjǐng.
“We rented a boat to enjoy the scenery on the lake.”
How common is 湖?
湖 is the 916th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.7% of all running text.
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