Pu'er
See also: Pǔ'ěr, pǔ'ěr, puer, Puer, and pür
English
Alternative forms
- (also from Hanyu Pinyin) Puer
- (from Wade–Giles) P'u-erh, P'u-êrh, Puerh, Pu-erh
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 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 958634538, 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, editor, 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.
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Synonyms
- Pu'er City
Translations
Pu'er, Yunnan
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Noun
Pu'er (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of pu'er: a kind of tea.
Anagrams
- Peru, Pre-U, Prue, Rupe, pure, re-up, reup