maan6 wu6萬戶万户
Jyutpingmaan6 wu6
Yalemaahn wuh
Definition
Ten thousand households; many households.
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How it's used
Evokes a sense of vastness or a dense urban landscape, often used in literary or descriptive contexts rather than daily counting. It functions as a poetic way to describe a large population or a sprawling city view. While it literally means ten thousand households, it is frequently used to represent a countless number of homes.
Examples
The ten thousand lights here are so beautiful.
Have you seen the ten thousand households over there?
Common phrases
ten thousand lights of households
ten thousand households
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
