洞庭

Dòngtíng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Dongting Lake, in northern Hunan
2 the Dongting Hills, two hills in Lake Tai near Suzhou

Characters

courtyard; hall

Examples

HSK 5

李白、杜甫都写过关于洞庭的诗。

Lǐ Bái, Dù Fǔ dōu xiě guo guānyú Dòngtíng de shī.

Li Bai and Du Fu both wrote poems about Dongting Lake.

HSK 7-9

碧螺春产于苏州太湖中的洞庭东、西两山。

Bìluóchūn chǎn yú Sūzhōu Tàihú zhōng de Dòngtíng dōng, xī liǎng shān.

Biluochun tea comes from the East and West Dongting Hills in Lake Tai near Suzhou.

Tips

usage

Speech says 洞庭湖; 洞庭 on its own is the literary name, common in poems and old essays such as 范仲淹's Yueyang Tower essay. In the tea name 洞庭碧螺春 it means the Dongting Hills in 太湖, not the lake in Hunan.

Stroke Order

洞 dòng

庭 tíng