天台山

Tiāntāishān
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Mount Tiantai in Tiantai county, Zhejiang, birthplace of the Tiantai school of Buddhism

Examples

HSK 4
Tiāntāishān zài Zhèjiāng, fēngjǐng hěn měi.
Mount Tiantai is in Zhejiang, and the scenery there is beautiful.
HSK 7-9
Zhìyǐ zài Tiāntāishān chuànglì le Tiāntāizōng, zhè shì Zhōngguó zuì zǎo de Fójiào zōngpài zhīyī.
Zhiyi founded the Tiantai school on Mount Tiantai, one of the earliest schools of Chinese Buddhism.

Tips

mistakes
台 is read tāi here, first tone, as in the county 天台 and the city 台州. It is the old character 台, not a simplified 臺 'platform', so traditional script writes it the same way.
culture
国清寺 at its foot, founded in 598, is the school's home temple. The Japanese monk Saichō studied here in 804 and took the teaching home, where it became Tendai Buddhism.

Stroke Order

天 tiān
台 tái
山 shān