天台山

Traditional form:

天台山

Pinyin (reading):

Tiāntāi Shān

Definitions:

• Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興／绍兴 ( Shàoxīng) in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗 ( Tiāntáizōng)

Characters:

• 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
• 台 - platform; unit; term of address
• 山 - mountain, hill, peak

Traditional characters:

• 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
• 台 - platform; unit; term of address
• 山 - mountain, hill, peak