Poyang
English
Alternative forms
- Po-yang, P'o-yang
Etymology
From Mandarin 鄱陽 / 鄱阳 (Póyáng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: pō′yäng′, pŭ′yäng′[1]
- Hyphenation: Po‧yang
Proper noun
Poyang
- A lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, the country's largest freshwater lake.
- 2016 December 28, Mike Ives, “As China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Shrinks, Solution Faces Criticism”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section)[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2016[2]:
- Long celebrated as China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang reaches more than three times the expanse of Los Angeles in the summer wet season. It is home to the rare Yangtze finless porpoise, and its mud flats are the primary winter feeding grounds for thousands of birds that fly south each autumn to escape Siberia’s chill, including the critically endangered Siberian crane.
Now it is Poyang itself that is at risk.
- A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
Translations
lake
References
- ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Poyang Lake”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1513, column 2: “(pōʹyängʹ), Chinese P’o-yang Hu (pǔʹyängʹho͞oʹ), […]”