Taiye Lake

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Etymology

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 太液池 (Tàiyèchí) (Tàiyèchí, "Great Flowing Pond").

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tīʹyěʹ
  • Hyphenation: Tai‧ye

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Taiye Lake

  1. one of several artificial lakes located in the imperial Chinese gardens of Chang'an and Beijing
    • 2008, Richard Platt, Beijing‎[1], Kingfisher, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:
      the emperor and his family live on an island in the Taiye Lake, which is all that remains of the Jin city

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