萬維網

See also: 万维网

Chinese

FWOTD – 12 March 2020

		ten thousand; a great number; surname	to preserve; to maintain; to hold together to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension	net; network
trad. (萬維網)		萬	維	網
simp. (万维网)		万	维	网
Literally: “ten thousand-dimensional web”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English World Wide Web, so that the resulting Mandarin pronunciation also has a similar phonological shape (w-w-w-).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wànwéiwǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄨㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ wai⁴ mong⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wànwéiwǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄨㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wànwéiwǎng
    • Wade–Giles: Wan⁴-wei²-wang³
    • Yale: Wàn-wéi-wǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Wannweiwoang
    • Palladius: Ваньвэйван (Vanʹvɛjvan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹ weɪ̯³⁵ wɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶ wai⁴ mong⁵
    • Yale: maahn wàih móhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ wai⁴ mong⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ wei⁴ mong⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² wɐi̯²¹ mɔːŋ¹³/

Proper noun

萬維網

1. (computing) World Wide Web; WWW

   • 我們應在數碼革命之後的萬維網時代努力創造一個比發明活字版印刷時的宋朝更加璀璨的新文明。 [MSC, trad.]
     我们应在数码革命之后的万维网时代努力创造一个比发明活字版印刷时的宋朝更加璀璨的新文明。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2003, 張信剛, 《從活字版到萬維網》, page 10

     Wǒmen yìng zài Shùmǎ Gémìng zhīhòu de Wànwéiwǎng shídài nǔlì chuàngzào yī ge bǐ fāmíng huózì bǎn yìnshuā shí de Sòngcháo gèngjiā cuǐcàn de xīn wénmíng. [Pinyin]

     During the World Wide Web era after the Digital Revolution, we should work to create a new civilization that is more brilliant than the Song dynasty, when movable type printing was invented.

See also

• 互聯網／互联网 (Hùliánwǎng)
• 因特網／因特网 (Yīntèwǎng)
• 網際網絡／网际网络 (Wǎngjì Wǎngluò), 網際網路／网际网路 (Wǎngjì Wǎnglù)