Penglai

See also: Pénglái and P'eng-lai

English

Alternative forms

• P'eng-lai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

A romanization of Mandarin 蓬萊 / 蓬莱 (Pénglái)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋ.laɪ/, enPR: pǔngʹlīʹ

Proper noun

Penglai

1. A district of Yantai, in eastern Shandong, China (famous for its mirages out at sea), formerly known as Tengchow and since renamed for a mythical island.
   • 1956 August, Army Operations in China January 1944 - August 1945‎^[2], Eighth United States Army, page 210:

     Should the enemy land in the Penglai area (northeastern part of Shantung Peninsula) part of the 12th Independent Garrison Unit will oppose it.

   • 1985 August 11, Robert D. McFadden, “IDA PRUITT, 96, WHO FOSTERED FRIENDSHIP WITH THE CHINESE”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 1, page 36‎^[4]:

     Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.

   • 1996, Guanlong Cao, “Pigs' Heads”, in Guanlong Cao, Nancy Moskin, transl., The Attic: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's Son‎^[5], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     In 1956 the government deprivatized all small businesses. The Penglai District collectivized the pig's head meat sellers into one production team.

2. A mythical Chinese paradise located in the eastern seas and populated with Taoist immortals.

Synonyms

• (district): Tengchow / Teng-chou / Dengzhou (obsolete), Penglai City (legal)
• (mythical island): Penglai Island, Mount Penglai, Penglai Mountain

Translations

district; mystical paradise

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓬萊 / 蓬莱 (zh) (Pénglái)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Horai, the Japanese development of the Chinese legend

Further reading

• Penglai, P'eng-lai, Peng-lai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Penglai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2398, column 3

Anagrams

• apeling, leaping, pealing, pleaing