xiāng gé lǐ lā
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
香
xiāng
fragrant
格
gé
square
里
lǐ
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
拉
lā
to pull