vạn tuế

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Vietnamese

A passage from 12 ngày của Ðức Bảo-Ðại tại Bắc-Kỳ showing an instance where the people shouted "Hoàng-thượng vạn tuế, Đại-Pháp vạn tuế, Việt-Nam vạn tuế"(Long live the Emperor, Long live Great France, Long live Vietnam) to Emperor Bảo Đại.

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 萬歲, composed of (ten thousand) and (years of age). Doublet of muôn tuổi.

Compare thiên tuế (Cycas pectinata, literally thousand years). The Cycas species are so named likely because of their long lifespan.

Pronunciation

Interjection

vạn tuế

  1. (archaic, to a monarch) long live
    Hoàng thượng vạn tuế! Vạn tuế! Vạn vạn tuế!
    Long live the emperor!

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Noun

(classifier cây) vạn tuế

  1. sago palm (Cycas revoluta)

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