千千萬萬
Chinese
thousand | thousand | ten thousand; a great number; surname | ten thousand; a great number; surname | ||
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trad. (千千萬萬) | 千 | 千 | 萬 | 萬 | |
simp. (千千万万) | 千 | 千 | 万 | 万 |
Etymology
AABB-type reduplication of 千萬/千万 (qiānwàn).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄑㄧㄢ ㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄢˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: ciancianwànwàn
- Wade–Giles: chʻien1-chʻien1-wan4-wan4
- Yale: chyān-chyān-wàn-wàn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chianchianwannwann
- Palladius: цяньцяньваньвань (cjanʹcjanʹvanʹvanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ wän⁵¹⁻⁵³ wän⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: cin1 cin1 maan6 maan6
- Yale: chīn chīn maahn maahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsin1 tsin1 maan6 maan6
- Guangdong Romanization: qin1 qin1 man6 man6
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ maːn²² maːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Middle Chinese: tshen tshen mjonH mjonH
Idiom
(deprecated template usage) 千千萬萬
- innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- 列寧還在一九〇五年就已著重指出過,我們的文藝應當「為千千萬萬勞動人民服務」。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《在延安文藝座談會上的講話》 (Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Lièníng hái zài yījiǔlíngwǔ nián jiù yǐ zhuózhòng zhǐchū guò, wǒmen de wényì yīngdāng “wèi qiānqiānwànwàn láodòng rénmín fúwù”. [Pinyin]
- As far back as 1905 Lenin pointed out emphatically that our literature and art should “serve … the millions and tens of millions of working people”.
列宁还在一九〇五年就已着重指出过,我们的文艺应当「为千千万万劳动人民服务」。 [MSC, simp.]
- absolutely; by all means; must
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