‖ hutung
(ˈhutuŋ)
[Chin.]
In northern Chinese cities: a narrow side-street, an alley.
| 1922 Blackw. Mag. Dec. 730/2 Old Sung, the curio⁓dealer of the Soochow hutung. 1923 Ibid. Dec. 726/2, I sat and listened to Pang the Soochow hutung dealer. 1960 Times 17 May 9/4 These hutungs—the lanes off Peking's still unkept main streets—are scarcely changed either. 1972 Times 6 Dec. 18/1 Modern buildings..provide a front for the old hutungs (side streets). Ibid. 18/2 In places the hutungs are only just wide enough for a man to pass. |