"Horai" redirects here. For the former town in Aichi, see Hōrai, Aichi. For the ancient Greek goddesses, see Horae.
Mount Penglai
"The Immortal Island of Penglai", by Chinese artist Yuan Jiang (1708), held by Palace Museum
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Legendary island of immortals, Otherworld
Characters
The Eight Immortals
Mount Penglai
"Penglai" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
蓬萊仙島
Simplified Chinese
蓬莱仙岛
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Pénglái xiāndǎo
Wade–Giles
P'eng2-lai2 hsien1-tao3
IPA
[pʰə̌ŋ.lǎɪ ɕjɛ́n.tàʊ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Pùhng Lòih Sīn Dóu
Jyutping
Pung4 Loi4 Sin1 Dou2
Japanese name
Kanji
蓬莱
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Romanization
Hōrai
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Penglai (Chinese: 蓬萊仙島; lit. 'Penglai Immortal[1] Island') is a legendary land of Chinese mythology. It is known in Japanese mythology as Hōrai.[2]
^The character 仙 literally refers to a Daoist holy person/immortal or a mythological being, but is often used to describe places which exhibit the qualities of these beings.
^McCullough, Helen. Classical Japanese Prose, p. 570. Stanford Univ. Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8047-1960-8.
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