Slender West Lake
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque from Chinese 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú, literally “Skinny West Lake”), the adjective distinguishing it from West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Proper noun
[edit]- A lake in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
- 2011 May 23, Royston Chan, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, “North Korea's Kim tours east China, economic ties in focus”, in Jonathan Thatcher, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 17 May 2021, World News[2]:
- Police also closed off the Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, in the morning. It was unclear why.
- 2018 June 4, Steven Lee Myers, “How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2018, Profile[4]:
- Yangzhou, where Mr. Zhou grew up, is renowned for its literary history, especially a 9th century poet, Du Mu. One poem lamenting the whereabouts of a friend is so well known that Mr. Zhou’s colleagues recited it in unison during an excursion to Slender West Lake, a World Heritage Site in the city.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- See West Lake
Translations
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