Mount Putuo

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 普陀山 (Pǔtuó Shān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͞oʹtôʹ

Proper noun

Mount Putuo

1. An island in Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China
   • 1984 October 16, Christopher S. Wren, “TO BE LEFT ALONE, CHINA'S BUDDISTS OPEN A DOOR”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World‎^[2]:

     Mount Wutai is really a cluster of five huge summits ranging in altitude up to 10,000 feet that is breached only by a few dirt roads twisting over the windswept passes of northern Shanxi. It is the most revered of the four mountains sacred to Chinese Buddhists, more than Mount Emei in Sichuan, Mount Putuo in Zhejiang or Mount Jihua in Anhui.

Synonyms

• Pootoo

Hypernyms

• island, mountain

Holonyms

• Zhoushan

Translations

island

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普陀山 (zh) (Pǔtuó Shān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can