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English
Noun
hutung (plural hutungs or hutung)
- 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 H 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.
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.