神物

Chinese

		God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being	thing; object; matter
simp. and trad. (神物)		神	物
anagram		物神

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shénwù

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˊ ㄨˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shénwù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shénwù
    • Wade–Giles: shên²-wu⁴
    • Yale: shén-wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shernwuh
    • Palladius: шэньу (šɛnʹu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən³⁵ u⁵¹/

Noun

神物

1. (literary) wonder; phenomenon

   • 但戰爭不是神物，仍是世間的一種必然運動，因此，孫子的規律，「知彼知己，百戰不殆」，仍是科學的真理。 [MSC, trad.]
     但战争不是神物，仍是世间的一种必然运动，因此，孙子的规律，「知彼知己，百战不殆」，仍是科学的真理。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dàn zhànzhēng bù shì shénwù, réng shì shìjiān de yī zhǒng bìrán yùndòng, yīncǐ, Sūnzǐ de guīlǜ, “zhībǐzhījǐ, bǎizhànbùdài”, réng shì kēxué de zhēnlǐ. [Pinyin]

     Yet war is in no way supernatural, but a mundane process governed by necessity. That is why Sun Wu Tzu's axiom, "Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat", remains a scientific truth.

2. (literary, Chinese mythology, Taoism) immortal; supernatural entity; celestial being; transcendent being

Synonyms

• (immortal): 神仙 (shénxiān)