Wutai

See also: wǔtái and wùtài

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹtīʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 五臺 / 五台 (Wǔtái).

Proper noun

Wutai

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China‎^[2], Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 513:

     Born in Wu T'ai county, Shansi, in 1902, in a landlord family, Hsu was educated at a normal school; in 1924 he entered Whampoa Academy.]

   • 1966 February, Rewi Alley, “Wutai Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], volume V, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:

     Wutai county has already re-forested a million mou of hillside, and has plans for a further 800,000 mou to be tackled in the immediate future. But there is a long way to go yet before the whole of Wutai is anything like what it was when the huge trees that were cut to make the pillars and beams of temples like Fu Kwang Ssu were still standing.

   • 2018 April 11, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Overlooked No More: Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, Chroniclers of Chinese Architecture”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-12, Obituaries‎^[5]:

     Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and meticulously catalogued Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha’s Light, in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was built in 857 A.D., making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest known).

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五臺 / 五台 (zh) (Wǔtái)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wutai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 1
• Wutai, Wu-t'ai, Wu-tai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 霧臺 / 霧台 (Wùtái).

Proper noun

Wutai

1. A mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.
   • 1979 December 30, “ROC's quality of life rising to developed nation levels”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[7], volume XX, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:

     One of the model villages under this program is in the Wutai area of Pingtung county in southern Taiwan, where people have been moved from Haucha, a remote and inaccessible area where they lived in caves and huts.

   • 2023 July 5, Lo Hsin-chen, Jake Chung, “Wutai Township touts sustainable tourism successes”, in Taipei Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2023, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[9]:

     Pingtung County’s Wutai Township (霧台) yesterday showcased the achievements and efforts of the nation’s first natural and social-ecological park on indigenous land in implementing sustainable tourism.

Translations

mountain indigenous township

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霧臺 / 霧台 (Wùtái)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can