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Mount Putuo

Syllables: Pu·tuo

Mount Putuo proper noun: an island of Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.

Proper noun

Mount Putuo

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

Synonyms of Mount Putuo

Origin of Mount Putuo

Partial calque of Mandarin 普陀山 (Pǔtuó Shān).

Questions about Mount Putuo

What does Mount Putuo mean?
Mount Putuo means an island of Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
What part of speech is Mount Putuo?
Mount Putuo is a proper noun.

Words near Mount Putuo in the dictionary

  1. Mount Poinsur
  2. mount point
  3. mount points
  4. Mount Pritchard
  5. Mount Prospect
  6. Mount Putuo
  7. Mount Ragged poison
  8. Mount Rainier
  9. Mount Rankin
  10. Mount Remarkable
  11. Mount Richmond

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