岱宗

Dàizōng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Daizong, Mount Tai in Shandong, revered as the first of the Five Sacred Mountains

Examples

HSK 4
Dàizōng shì Wǔyuè zhī shǒu.
Daizong is the foremost of the Five Sacred Mountains.
HSK 6
Dù Fǔ niánqīng shí yuǎnyuǎn wàng zhe Dàizōng, xiěxià le míngpiān 《 Wàngyuè 》.
As a young man Du Fu gazed at Mount Tai from afar and wrote his famous poem Gazing at the Mountain.

Tips

culture
杜甫's 望岳 opens: 岱宗夫如何?齐鲁青未了 "Mount Tai, what is it like? Across Qi and Lu its green never ends." 宗 "ancestor, chief" marks it as the head of all mountains.
register
Literary only. In speech and on maps the mountain is 泰山.

Stroke Order

岱 Dài
宗 zōng