hutung

hutung (plural hutungs or hutung)

1. Dated spelling of hutong.
   • 1866 April 23, W[illiam] Lockhart, “VIII.—Notes on Peking and Its Neighbourhood”, in W[illiam] S[weetland] Dallas, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume XXXVI, London: John Murray;  […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 137:

     These great streets are crossed by many broad streets, and these again by an infinite number of narrow streets, called Hutungs, or lanes.

   • 1881, Samuel Pasfield Oliver, chapter III, in On and Off Duty, being Leaves from an Officer’s Note-book, London: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 59:

     In the afternoon a party of us strolled out to the Chinese city [Peking], through the Great Meridian Gate, to examine the curiosity shops. The narrow streets or hutungs in this quarter reminded me of Canton.

   • 1891 January, “Letters from the Front. China. Medicine in Missions.”, in Woman’s Work for Woman. A Union Illustrated Magazine, volume VI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Woman’s Foreign Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian Church, […], →OCLC, page 18, column 2:

     We opened two dispensaries [in Peking] in November last; one at An Ting, where we lived and which was open every day, Sabbath excepted; and one in the other compound at Ya'rh Hutung, which was open about three days in the week.

     Used in a street name.

   • 1924, “Tientsin”, in Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces. 1912–21 (China, The Maritime Customs, I (Statistical Series); no. 6), volumes I (Northern and Yangtze Ports), 4th issue, Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, →OCLC, section 22 (The Revolution and the Fall of the Manchus), page 170:

     Banks, pawn-shops, and large stores were pillaged and burned, the buildings on either side of the Ta Hutung being almost completely destroyed by fire.

     Used in a street name.