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P'u-tung

P'u-tung is the alternative form of Pudong.

Meaning of Pudong

Proper noun (1)

Pudong

  1. A new area in Shanghai, China.
    • Where just 20 years ago there were rice paddies, now stands the new and ultramodern Pudong financial district and its imposing office towers. On Puxi, across the river, is the Bund, a collection of stately Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and '30s that call to mind old parts of New York or London.2004 June 2, Alexandra A. Seno, “DOING BUSINESS : Shanghai seizes the gilded, glitzy day”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2024, Style

Proper noun (2)

Pudong

  1. A barangay of Kapangan, Benguet, Philippines.

Origin of P'u-tung

From Mandarin 浦東 /浦东 (Pǔdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻu³-tung¹.

Questions about P'u-tung

What is P'u-tung the alternative form of?
P'u-tung is the alternative form of Pudong.

Words near P'u-tung in the dictionary

  1. p'tcha
  2. P'town
  3. P'u-k'ou
  4. P'u-t'ien
  5. p'u-t'ung-hua
  6. P'u-tung
  7. P'u-yang
  8. P'urhépecha
  9. p(doom)
  10. p**do
  11. p**dophile

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: P'u-tung (page history and authors); Pudong (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.

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