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西湖

Mandarin · pinyin Xī Hú#

West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州 Háng zhōu, Zhejiang

Mandarin · pinyin Xī hú#

see 西湖區 Xī hú Qū

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西: xī · west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146
湖: hú · a lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green

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West Lake (a lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China)
(～區) Xihu (a district of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China)
(～郡) Tây Hồ (a district of Hanoi, Vietnam)
(～鄉) Xihu, Sihu (a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)
(～社區) Xihu (a residential community in Zhicheng, Yidu, Yichang, Hubei, China)
(～村) Sihu, Xihu (a rural village in Cimei, Penghu County, Taiwan)
(inexact) synonym of 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú), Slender West Lake (a lake in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China)

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