洮湖 (táohú): Lake Tao (Jiangsu)

Meanings

1 Lake Tao (Jiangsu)
2 Taohu Lake

Characters

洮

táo

Tao (place name reading)

湖

hú

lake

Examples

洮湖位于江苏常州金坛一带。

Táo Hú wèiyú Jiāngsū Chángzhōu Jīntán yīdài.

Lake Tao lies in the Jintan area of Changzhou, Jiangsu.

洮湖盛产河蟹和青虾。

Táo Hú shèngchǎn héxiè hé qīngxiā.

Lake Tao is rich in hairy crabs and freshwater prawns.

Tips

culture

Also called 长荡湖 (Changdang Lake) — a freshwater lake of about 90 km² straddling Changzhou and Liyang in Jiangsu. One of the Taihu Basin's 'five major lakes' (太湖五大湖泊), historically famous for hairy crab, whitebait and freshwater prawns.