Pu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"

Translingual

Symbol

Pu

1. (chemistry) Symbol for plutonium.

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu/

Proper noun

Pu

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • 2003 January 3, Xiaoli Hu, “New Life in Old Art”, in Beijing Today‎^[1], number 95, →OCLC, Face, page 9, column 3:

     She wanted to find out where the artist lived and learn from him or her. She discovered the artist lived in Pu county, Shanxi province.

   • [2021 October 6, “5 killed as rainstorms hit north China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on 06 October 2021‎^[3]:

     Early on Wednesday morning, it was confirmed that four people had died in a flood in Jingpo Village of Puxian County in the city of Linfen, according to the county's publicity department.]

2. A surname from Chinese.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒲 (zh) (Pú) (Pu2, Pú (zh), ㄆㄨˊ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• U.P., UP, up, up-