千千萬萬
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Chinese[edit]
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[edit]
AABB-type reduplication of 千萬/千万 (qiānwàn).
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
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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