巨萬

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See also: 巨万

Chinese

		very large; huge; tremendous very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic	ten thousand; a great number; surname
trad. (巨萬/鉅萬)		巨/鉅	萬
simp. (巨万)		巨	万

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jùwàn

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ ㄨㄢˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jùwàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ ㄨㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyùwàn
  - Wade–Giles: chü⁴-wan⁴
  - Yale: jyù-wàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuhwann
  - Palladius: цзюйвань (czjujvanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ wän⁵¹/

Noun

巨萬

(archaic) lots; a ton; a huge amount
- 京師之錢累巨萬，貫朽而不可校。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  京师之钱累巨万，贯朽而不可校。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Jīngshī zhī qián lěi jùwàn, guàn xiǔ ér bùkě xiào.
  In the capital the strings of cash had been stacked up by myriads of myriads until the cords that bound them had rotted away and they could no longer be counted.

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