許多

See also: 许多

Chinese

		to allow; to permit; to praise to allow; to permit; to praise; surname	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-
trad. (許多)		許	多
simp. (许多)		许	多

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǔduō

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˇ ㄉㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi² do¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hú-to / hír-to͘ / hí-to

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǔduō
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ ㄉㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syǔduo
    • Wade–Giles: hsü³-to¹
    • Yale: syǔ-dwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuduo
    • Palladius: сюйдо (sjujdo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: heoi² do¹
    • Yale: héui dō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoey² do¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêu² do¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³⁵ tɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú-to
    • Tâi-lô: hú-to
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hw'doy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hír-to͘
    • Tâi-lô: hír-too
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɯ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hí-to
    • Tâi-lô: hí-to
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hy'doy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to⁴⁴/

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 許多

1. a considerable number of; a significant amount of; a good deal of; a lot of; many; much

   現在科學可以說明許多神秘的事。 [MSC, trad.]
   现在科学可以说明许多神秘的事。 [MSC, simp.]

   Xiànzài kēxué kěyǐ shuōmíng xǔduō shénmì de shì. [Pinyin]

   Science can now account for many mysterious things.

Synonyms

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• 一系列 (yīxìliè)
• 不少 (bùshǎo)
• 不老少 (bùlǎoshǎo) (colloquial)
• 儦儦 (biāobiāo) (literary)
• 千千 (qiānqiān) (literary)
• 千百 (qiānbǎi) (literary)
• 好些 (hǎoxiē)
• 好多 (hǎoduō)
• 孔多 (kǒngduō) (literary)
• 幾多／几多 (gei² do¹) (Cantonese)
• 廣／广 (literary, or in compounds)
• 廣大／广大 (guǎngdà) (of people)
• 延延 (yányán) (literary)
• 很多 (hěnduō)
• 𣍐少／𫧃少 (Hokkien)
• 浩瀚 (hàohàn)
• 浩繁 (hàofán)
• 百
• 眾多／众多 (zhòngduō)
• 繁多 (fánduō)
• 萌生 (méngshēng) (literary)
• 諸多／诸多 (zhūduō)
• 颮颮／飑飑 (literary)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 很多 (“many; much; a lot”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		許多, 甚多
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	老些, 老些個
	Taiwan	很多, 好多, 滿多, 許多
Cantonese	Guangzhou	好多
	Hong Kong	好多
	Taishan	好多
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	當多, 已多
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蓋多
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	當多, 盡多, 已多
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	當多, 已多
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	當多, 盡多, 已多
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	真多, 足多
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	野濟
Southern Min	Xiamen	真濟, 野濟, 誠濟, 有夠濟
	Quanzhou	真濟, 野濟, 誠濟, 有夠濟
	Zhangzhou	盡濟, 蓋濟, 足濟, 有夠濟
	Taipei	真濟, 誠濟
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	真濟, 誠濟
	Kaohsiung	有夠濟, 足濟, 真濟, 誠濟, 蓋濟
	Yilan	有夠濟, 足濟, 誠濟, 盡濟
	Changhua (Lukang)	真濟, 誠濟
	Taichung	誠濟, 蓋濟, 足濟
	Tainan	有夠濟, 足濟, 真濟, 誠濟, 蓋濟
	Hsinchu	真濟, 誠濟
	Kinmen	足濟, 誠濟
	Penghu (Magong)	真濟, 誠濟
	Penang (Hokkien)	誠濟
	Manila (Hokkien)	野濟, 真濟
Wu	Shanghai	老多, 交關, 交關多, 造反, 行情, 介許多
	Hangzhou	造反

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