p'eng-lai

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

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"Li Shao-chün not only promised the Emperor immortality after seeing P'eng-lai, but he said that he himself had been to P'eng-lai."
"'The Pointing Finger' is one of many Taoist tales about the Eight Immortals whose fabled home was the magical island of P'eng-lai."
"The second strand features such personages as the Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, and places such as the Isles of P'eng-lai in the east."

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 蓬萊 /蓬莱 (Pénglái) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻeng²-lai².

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