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Wutai

Syllables: Wu·tai

Wutai proper noun: a county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun (1)

Wutai

  1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    • 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.[1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 513
    • 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...1966 February, Rewi Alley, “Wutai Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Wutai

  1. A mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.
    • 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.1979 December 30, “ROC's quality of life rising to developed nation levels”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XX, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5
    • 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.2023 July 5, Lo Hsin-chen, Jake Chung, “Wutai Township touts sustainable tourism successes”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2023, Taiwan News, page 2

Examples of Wutai in a sentence

  • 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.1966 February, Rewi Alley, “Wutai Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
  • 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.2018 April 11, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Overlooked No More: Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, Chroniclers of Chinese Architecture”, in The New York...

Origin of Wutai

From Mandarin 五臺 /五台 (Wǔtái).

From Mandarin 霧臺 /霧台 (Wùtái).

Questions about Wutai

What does Wutai mean?
Wutai means a county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Wutai in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is Wutai?
Wutai is a proper noun.

Words near Wutai in the dictionary

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  8. wuth
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  10. wuthered
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