Penglai

See also: Pénglái and P'eng-lai

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Etymology

A romanization of Mandarin 蓬萊蓬莱 (Pénglái)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛŋ.laɪ/, enPR: pǔngʹlīʹ[1]

Proper noun

Penglai

  1. A district of Yantai, in eastern Shandong, China (famous for its mirages out at sea), formerly known as Tengchow and since renamed for a mythical island.
    • 1956 August, Army Operations in China January 1944 - August 1945, Eighth United States Army, page 210:
      Should the enemy land in the Penglai area (northeastern part of Shantung Peninsula) part of the 12th Independent Garrison Unit will oppose it.
    • 1985 August 11, Robert D. McFadden, “IDA PRUITT, 96, WHO FOSTERED FRIENDSHIP WITH THE CHINESE”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 1, page 36:
      Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.
    • 1996, Guanlong Cao, “Pigs' Heads”, in Guanlong Cao, Nancy Moskin, transl., The Attic: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's Son, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:
      In 1956 the government deprivatized all small businesses. The Penglai District collectivized the pig's head meat sellers into one production team.
  2. A mythical Chinese paradise located in the eastern seas and populated with Taoist immortals.

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See also

  • Horai, the Japanese development of the Chinese legend

References

  1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Penglai or P’eng-lai”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1450, column 1

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