pu'er

Pu·er
/ˈpʊəɹ//ˈpu.əɹ/

noun

A kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).

Similar
bo leiPu'er City
OriginChinese 普洱茶 →
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

pu'er1

nounpu'er (uncountable)

alternative Pu-erh · alternative pu-erh · alternative Pu'er · alternative puer · alternative bo lei

  1. uncountableA kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).

    Synonyms: bo lei

Pu'er2

proper noun

alternative also Puer · alternative P'u-erh · alternative P'u-êrh · alternative Puerh · alternative Pu-erh

  1. A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.

    An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, early last Sunday.

    2007 June 8, “Earthquake kills three”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3
    2 more examples

    In order to improve the quality of Pu'er Tea, Pu'er City strengthened the construction of ecological tea orchards bases.

    2011, Xiaoxi Li, Jiancheng Pan, editors, China Green Development Index Report 2011, →ISBN, page 200

    Lancang Lahu Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City in south-western Yunnan Province.

    2018, Ralph E. Harbach, Culicipedia, CABI, →ISBN, page 206

    Synonyms: Pu'er City

nounPu'er (uncountable)

alternative also Puer · alternative P'u-erh · alternative P'u-êrh · alternative Puerh · alternative Pu-erh

  1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of pu'er: a kind of tea.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).

Similar
bo lei

proper nounA prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.

Similar
Pu'er City
Also see
bo leipu'er city

Origin

pu'er · noun

  1. Chinese普洱茶
  2. Englishpu'er

Shortened from pu'er tea, from the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá).

More words from Chinese

Full word history & related roots →

Pu'er · proper noun, noun

  1. Mandarin普洱
  2. EnglishPu'er

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普洱 (Pǔ'ěr). As the tea, shortened from Pu'er tea.

More words from Mandarin

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Cantonese 普洱茶, 普洱
  • 普洱茶a variety of tea
  • 普洱a variety of tea
  • 普洱 (pou² ji⁵)Pu'er, Yunnan
Chinese Mandarin 普洱茶, 普洱
  • 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá)a variety of tea
  • 普洱 (Pǔ'ěr)Pu'er, Yunnan
Japanese プーアル茶
  • プーアル茶 (Pūarucha)a variety of tea
Korean 보이차
  • 보이차 (boicha)a variety of tea
Russian пуэ́р
  • пуэ́р (puér)a variety of tea
Thai ชาผู่เอ๋อร์
  • ชาผู่เอ๋อร์a variety of tea

Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

pooerpure (some dialects)
Cite this entry
APA

pu'er. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pu'er

MLA

“pu'er.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pu'er. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pu'er,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pu'er.

Source: pu'er on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.