千萬せんまん

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Chinese

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thousand ten thousand; a great number; surname
trad. (千萬せんまん) せん まん
simp. (千万せんまん) せん まん
anagram まんせんまんせん

Pronunciation 1

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Number

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千萬せんまん

  1. ten million

Adjective

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千萬せんまん

  1. tens of millions of
Derived terms
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Pronunciation 2

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Adverb

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千萬せんまん

  1. absolutely; by all means; must; (when used negatively) under no circumstances; don't ever; for goodness' sake please don't
    千萬せんまんよう千万せんまんよう  ―  Qiānwàn yào lái!  ―  You gotta come!
    千萬せんまんべつ這麼せつ千万せんまん这么  ―  Qiānwàn bié zhème shuō!  ―  Don't ever talk like that!
Synonyms
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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (千萬せんまん):

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
せん まん
せん
Grade: 1
ばん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi goon
Kanji in this term
せん まん
せん
Grade: 1
まん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi kan'yōon
For pronunciation and definitions of 千萬せんまん – see the following entry.
千万せんまんせんまん
[numeral] ten million
[adjective] countless; innumerable
千万せんまんせんばん
[adverb] (formal or literary) very; extremely (also used as a suffix after -na adjectives)
(This term, 千萬せんまん, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Old Japanese

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Etymology

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From せん (ti, one thousand) +‎ まん (yo2ro2du, ten thousand, myriad).

Literally “ten million”.

Noun

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千萬せんまん (tiyo2ro2du) (kana ちよろづ)

  1. a countless or innumerable amount
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 6, poem 972:
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      千萬せんまんぐん奈利ともげんきょ不爲ふため而可らいおとこつね曾念
      tiyo2ro2du no2 ikusa nari to2mo ko2to2age sezu to2rite ki1nube2ki1 ono2ko1 to2 so2 omopu
      Though you faced a foe a thousand myriads in strength, you are such a man as without lifting up words could bring them captive back.[1]

Descendants

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Norinaga Motoori (2007) Michael F. Marra, editor, The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 7