普陀山 - Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara) - Pǔ tuó shān | Definition | ChinesePod.com

普陀山

Pǔ tuó shān

Pinyin

Definition

普陀山

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Pǔ tuó shān

Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Zhōng shān

1 refers to Dr Sun Yat-sen
2 Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
3 Nakayama (Japanese surname)

rén shān rén hǎi

1 multitude
2 vast crowd

Fó shān

1 Foshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong

bīng shān

1 iceberg
2 classifier: 座 zuò

Táng shān

1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei

Idioms (20)

一山不容二虎

yī shān bù róng èr hǔ

1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive

不识泰山

bù shí Tài Shān

1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person

不显山不露水

bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ

1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts

他山之石可以攻玉

tā shān zhī shí kě yǐ gōng yù

1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively

兵败如山倒

bīng bài rú shān dǎo

1 troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

Sample Sentences

不错不错，普陀山不愧为四大佛山之首，香火超旺。

bùcuò bùcuò ，Pǔtuóshān bùkuì wéi sì dà fóshān zhī shǒu ，xiānghuǒ chāo wàng 。

Not bad, not bad. Putuo Mountain really deserves to be the most important of the four Buddhist mountains. There were tons of people there lighting incense.

那你们这次去普陀山有没有许愿？

nà nǐmen zhècì qù Pǔtuóshān yǒumeiyǒu xǔyuàn ？

Then did you guys do any praying when you were there?