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.
   • 1980 December 3 [1980 November 29], “Verdict in frameup case of 'armed rebellion' in Pu County, Shanxi reversed under the direction of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission--the frameup case was pure fabrication concocted with the support of the former principal responsible person of the Shanxi provincial party committee”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 234, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page R 6:

     He also announced: the former Pu County CCP Committee must be affirmed as a party organization. The decision to reorganize the Pu County CCP Committee was wrong. There was no one and no incidents in Pu County which were related to the conspiratorial activities of the "gang of four" to usurp party power and there was no bourgeois faction connected with the "gang of four."

   • 2003 January 3, Xiaoli Hu, “New Life in Old Art”, in Beijing Today‎^[2], 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^[3], archived from the original on 06 October 2021‎^[4]:

     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-