萬古

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See also: 万古

Chinese

		ten thousand; a great number; surname	ancient; old
trad. (萬古)		萬	古
simp. (万古)		万	古

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wàngǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄍㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ gu²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): van-kú

(Hailu, HRS): van^˖ gu^ˊ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mang⁵ gou³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bān-kó͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wàngǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄍㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wàngǔ
  - Wade–Giles: wan⁴-ku³
  - Yale: wàn-gǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannguu
  - Palladius: ваньгу (vanʹgu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  - Homophones:
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    萬古 / 万古
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: maan⁶ gu²
  - Yale: maahn gú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ gu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ gu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² kuː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: van-kú
  - Hakka Romanization System: van gu^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: van⁴ gu³
  - Sinological IPA: /van⁵⁵ ku³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: van^˖ gu^ˊ
  - Sinological IPA: /van³³ ku²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: mang⁵ gou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ²¹ kɔu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: mang⁵ gou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ²¹ kɔu³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān-kó͘
  - Tâi-lô: bān-kóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: baxnkor
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ban²²⁻²¹ kɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹⁻²² kɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²⁻²¹ kɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ban³³⁻¹¹ kɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban³³⁻²¹ kɔ⁴¹/

Noun

萬古

(literary) aeons; eternity
- 「天不生仲尼，萬古長如夜！」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  「天不生仲尼，万古长如夜！」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  From: Various editors, Collected Conversations of Master Zhu, c. 13^th century CE
  “tiān bù shēng Zhòngní, wàngǔ cháng rú yè!”
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

Descendants

→? Proto-Turkic: *beŋkü (“eternal, eternity”)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “万古”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 380.

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