巨萬

See also: 巨万

Chinese

		very large; huge; tremendous very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic	ten thousand; a great number; surname
trad. (巨萬)		巨	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. [Pinyin]
  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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