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Putuo

Syllables: Pu·tuo/putwoʊ/

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

putuo: an island of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China
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Proper noun

Putuo

  1. An island of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
  2. A district of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
    • The typhoon landed in the Putuo district of the city of Zhoushan, a major port in the east coast province of Zhejiang, at 12:30 p.m. (0430 GMT) on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing the China Meteorological Administration.2021 July 25, Dominique Patton, Sophie Yu, “East China braces for typhoon In-fa after flooding in country's centre”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 25 Jul...
  3. A district of Shanghai, China.
    • Satisfied, she poked at scraps of wood glowing in the small stove holding the wok, which stood on a pile of rubble outside her door in the slums of this city's Putuo District.[…]
    • Altogether, about 15,000 people live along with Mrs. Zhi in the Putuo slums, a raged swath of land on the northwestern edges of the city crowded with ramshackle miniature houses that were thrown up helter-skelter in the 1930's and 40's.1987 January 5, Edward A. Gargan, “SHANGHAI JOURNAL; ERASING THE SLUMS? THE 64-SQUARE-FOOT QUESTION”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2009, World

Forms of Putuo

alternative formP'u-t'uo

Origin of Putuo

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普陀 (Pǔtuó), a clipped transcription of Sanskrit पोतलक (Potalaka, literally “Brilliance”), the name of the palace of the god or bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (known in China as the goddess or bodhisattva Guanyin) in the influential Flower Garland Sutra. The island in Zhejiang has been a center of Buddhist pilgrimage related to the worship of Guanyin since at least the Tang dynasty.

Phrases with Putuo

Questions about Putuo

What does Putuo mean?
Putuo means an island of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
What part of speech is Putuo?
Putuo is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Putuo?
Putuo is pronounced /putwoʊ/.

Words near Putuo in the dictionary

  1. putu
  2. putu piring
  3. Putukwam
  4. Putumayo
  5. Putung
  6. Putuo
  7. puture
  8. pututu
  9. pututus
  10. putwa
  11. Putyvl

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