蓬萊

Etymology 1
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It bears striking resemblance to a Southeast Asian word for “sea”. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. These seem to be borrowings, possibly from a Mon-Khmer language; compare 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, > 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, it may be a transcription of an earlier Austroasiatic name; cf. , an ancient Dongyi tribe, where has been argued to transcribe a native word for "mountain" or "wilderness". The latter interpretation was mentioned in the Classical Chinese text Yue Jue Shu and discussed by.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Penglai a mythical eastern isle of 仙|immortals
 * 2)  fairyland
 * 1)  fairyland

Noun

 * 1)  wilderness