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太湖

Mandarin · pinyin Tài Hú#

Lake Tai near Wuxi City 無錫 Wú xī, bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes

Mandarin · pinyin Tài hú#

see 太湖縣 Tài hú Xiàn

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太: tài · very, too, much; big; extreme
湖: hú · a lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green

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4–2 · Tai4 Hu2

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Lake Tai, a large freshwater lake west of Shanghai in eastern China
(～縣) Taihu (a county of Anqing, Anhui, China)

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