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十萬八千里

简十万八千里 · 繁十萬八千里

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsap6 maan6 baat3 cin1 lei5

lit. one hundred and eight thousand kilometres, meaning very far away

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

sap66 · low levelchecked · -pmaan66 · low levelbaat33 · mid levelchecked · -tcin11 · high levellei55 · low rising

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Same syllable, six tones

sap湿sap1trivialsap2—sap3—sap4—sap5—十sap6ten

maanmaan1—maan2—maan3—蛮maan4barbarian 晚maan5evening 万maan6ten thousand

baatbaat1—baat2—八baat3eightbaat4—baat5—baat6—

cin千cin1thousand 浅cin2shallowcin3—前cin4front 践cin5to fulfillcin6—

lei喱lei1grain weightlei2—lei3—离lei4to leave 理lei5texture 利lei6sharp

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

十萬八千里万

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

十萬八千里 shí wàn bā qiān lǐ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinlight-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: shi2 wan4 ba1 qian1 li3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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