香格里拉

Traditional form:

香格里拉

Pinyin (reading):

Xiānggélǐlā

Definitions:

• Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth
• Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel

Characters:

• 香 - incense; fragrant, aromatic
• 格 - form, pattern, standard
• 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)

Traditional characters:

• 香 - incense; fragrant, aromatic
• 格 - form, pattern, standard
• 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)