Pu'er

See also: Pǔ'ěr, pǔ'ěr, puer, Puer, and pür

English

Alternative forms

Puer (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
P'u-erh, P'u-êrh, Puerh, Pu-erh (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普洱 (Pǔ'ěr). As the tea, shortened from Pu'er tea.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpʊəɹ/, /ˈpu.əɹ/

Proper noun

Pu'er

A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
- 2007 June 8, “Earthquake kills three”, in Beijing Today‎, →OCLC, page 3:
  An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, early last Sunday.
- 2011, Xiaoxi Li, Jiancheng Pan, editors, China Green Development Index Report 2011‎, →ISBN, page 200:
  In order to improve the quality of Pu'er Tea, Pu'er City strengthened the construction of ecological tea orchards bases.
- 2018, Ralph E. Harbach, Culicipedia‎, CABI, →ISBN, page 206:
  Lancang Lahu Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City in south-western Yunnan Province.

Synonyms

Pu'er City

Translations

Pu'er, Yunnan

Chinese:
Cantonese: 普洱 (pou² ji⁵)

Mandarin: 普洱 (zh) (Pǔ'ěr)
Hani: Pu'e
Lü: ᦘᦴᦵᦁᦲ (phuuʼoe)
Nuosu: please add this translation if you can

Noun

Pu'er (uncountable)

Alternative letter-case form of pu'er: a kind of tea.

Further reading

Pu'er, P'u-erh, Pu-erh, Puerh at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

Peru, Pre-U, Prue, Rupe, pure, re-up, reup

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