屹然

Chinese

		high and steep	so; thus; like this so; thus; like this; ‑ly; correct; right
trad. (屹然)		屹	然
simp. #(屹然)		屹	然

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yìrán

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ ㄖㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngat⁶ jin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yìrán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ ㄖㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yìrán
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴-jan²
    • Yale: yì-rán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yihran
    • Palladius: ижань (ižanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹ ʐän³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 亦然 易燃 毅然

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngat⁶ jin⁴
    • Yale: ngaht yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngat⁹ jin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nged⁶ yin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐt̚² jiːn²¹/

Adjective

屹然

1. (literary) towering; majestic
2. (literary) firm; standing firmly

   • 根據地雖小卻有很大的政治上的威力，屹然和龐大的國民黨政權相對立。 [MSC, trad.]
     根据地虽小却有很大的政治上的威力，屹然和庞大的国民党政权相对立。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Gēnjùdì suī xiǎo què yǒu hěn dà de zhèngzhìshàng de wēilì, yìrán hé pángdà de Guómíndǎng zhèngquán xiāng duìlì. [Pinyin]

     Our base areas, small as they are, are politically very powerful and stand firmly opposed to the enormous Kuomintang regime.

Related terms

• 屹立 (yìlì)