Mount Putuo
Syllables: Pu·tuo
Mount Putuo proper noun: an island of Putuo district, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
Proper noun
Mount Putuo
- 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
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Mount Putuo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “Mount Putuo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mount_putuo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
