But Google Translate like many translating machines is not very reliable The name of this lake in Chinese is romanised without spacing to Taihu The second character hu means lake The current title Taihu Lake as it stands is a pleonasm it essentially is Tai Lake Lake this is similar for the mountain ranges Huangshan not Huangshan Mountains as that is again a pleonasm the second character here shan means mountain So don t listen to the IP above And also keep in mind that a mainline Google search alone is inadvisable see WP GOOGLE though as you stated this ratio is overwhelming HXL s Roundtable and Record