Tungting

[ doong-ting ]

noun

1. a lake in S China, in Hunan province. 1,450 sq. mi. (3,755 sq. km).

Tungting

/ ˌtʊŋˈtɪŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for the Dongting

Example Sentences

The Colonel, Anne, and a doctor were setting out for a survey of the Tungting Lake district, and were to take off in the Yangtze.

From Project Gutenberg

As in previous foraging expeditions, the Japs had pushed into the Tungting Lake rice bowl of central China.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Japanese mounted their fourth offensive in the Tungting Lake district of central China.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief.

From Time Magazine Archive

By week's end Sun Lien-chung's drive from the south had taken Kungan, the main Japanese forward base, recovered Nanhsien and Nanhsian on the northern shore of Tungting Lake and was forging on to the river.

From Time Magazine Archive