Pudong
name
name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A new area in Shanghai, China.
"Where just 20 years ago there were rice paddies, now stands the new and ultramodern Pudong financial district and its imposing office towers. On Puxi, across the river, is the Bund, a collection of stately Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and '30s that call to mind old parts of New York or London."
Example
More examples"I still need to go to Pudong at 12:30."
Etymology
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浦東 /浦东 (Pǔdōng, literally “East Bank”), derived from its position east of the Huangpu River.
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