萬里

See also: 万里

Chinese

		ten thousand; a great number; surname	li, a Chinese unit of length
trad. (萬里)		萬	里
simp. (万里)		万	里
Literally: “10,000 li”.

Etymology

From the idiomatic sense of 萬／万 (wàn) as any uncountable or unimaginably large number.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wànlǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ lei⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): van-lî
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bān-lí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wànlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wànlǐ
    • Wade–Giles: wan⁴-li³
    • Yale: wàn-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannlii
    • Palladius: ваньли (vanʹli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶ lei⁵
    • Yale: maahn léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² lei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: van-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: van li^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: van⁴ li¹
    • Sinological IPA: /van⁵⁵ li²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān-lí
    • Tâi-lô: bān-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baxnlie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ban²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ban³³⁻¹¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban³³⁻²¹ li⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 萬里

1. (figurative) an immeasurably long distance; very long distance

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (萬里):

• → Japanese: 万(ばん)里(り) (banri)
• → Korean: 만리(萬里) (malli)
• → Vietnamese: vạn lý (萬里)

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 萬里

1. (～區) Wanli (a district of New Taipei, Taiwan)
2. (～里) An urban village in Wanli district, New Taipei, Taiwan