Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「八萬四千」. Explanation below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「八萬四千」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Originally a number in Buddhism to represent the multitude of things, it was later used to describe an extremely large number.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bā wàn sì qiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baat3 maan6 sei3 chin1
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