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.

   • 2024 November 12, Emily Hung, “Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines launches new route to Zhoushan, site of sacred Mount Putuo”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 08, 2025, Hong Kong economy‎^[4]:

     Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines has launched flights to Zhoushan, a mainland Chinese city known for its Buddhist pilgrimage site of Mount Putuo, adding a new route that will soon be followed by three others, even as it recently cut a flight to Haikou that began in late July.

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