Hongze

• Hungtse, Hung-tse

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪澤／洪泽 (Hóngzé), bestowed on the lake by Emperor Yang of Sui in 616 out of pleasure encountering rain after an inspection tour through drought-afflicted areas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɒŋzə/

Hongze

1. A lake in Jiangsu, China.
2. A district of Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
   • 2019 January 30, Yanzhong Huang, “If a Government Can’t Deliver Safe Vaccines for Children, Is It Fit to Rule?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2019, Opinion‎:

     Earlier this month, hundreds of aggrieved parents gathered outside the government office in Jinhu County, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, demanding an explanation for why 145 infants had been administered expired doses of the polio vaccine. […]
     This month after the scandal in Jinhu, a video circulated on Weibo and WeChat showing a meeting with local officials and residents from a neighboring district, Hongze.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hongze”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1305, column 1