白頭山
The modern Korean name of the mountain, or (), was first recorded in the 13th-century historical record . It means 'white-head mountain'. In other records from the same period, the mountain was also called (, ), which means 'great-white mountain'. The modern name of the mountain in Chinese, (, comes from the modern Manchu name of the mountain, which is (), which means 'ever white mountain'. Another Chinese name, (), is the transliteration of "Paektu Mountain". The Mongolian name is (), which means 'lofty white mountain'. In English, various authors have used nonstandard transliterations.