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Traditionally, "banzai" (roughly translated as "hurrah", literally translated as "ten thousand years") was an expression of enthusiasm, and crowds shouting the word three times, arms stretched out above their heads, could be considered the traditional Japanese form of applause. [14]
A similar term is the Old Turkic word tümän, [12] whose variant forms remain in use for "ten thousand" among modern Mongolian, Turkish. [13] [14] According to Sir Gerard Clauson (1891–1974), it was likely borrowed from Tokharian tmān, which may have been borrowed in turn from Old Chinese tman 萬 > wan. [15]
Ten thousand years primarily refers to an expression used in various East Asian languages to wish long life. Ten thousand years, 10,000 years, or similar may also refer to: 10,000 Years, a 2003 album by The Honeydogs "Ten Thousand Years" (99% Invisible), episode 114 of the podcast
Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration and at later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after the start point. [clarification needed] The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date.
10 times the length of the previous cosmological decade, with CD 1 beginning either 10 seconds or 10 years after the Big Bang, depending on the definition. eon: 10 9 yr: Also refers to an indefinite period of time, otherwise is 1 000 000 000 years. kalpa: 4.32 × 10 9 yr: Used in Hindu mythology. About 4 320 000 000 years. exasecond: 10 18 s ...
A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10 thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. This article was originally published on TODAY.com Show comments
Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of "Amazing Grace" is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse (by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins "When we've been there ten thousand years"), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation ...
The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990 by Charles Wright ISBN 0-374-29293-0 ISBN 0-374-52326-6. Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel ISBN 0-06-056562-4. In philosophy, Lao Zi writes about ten thousand things in the Tao Te Ching. In Taoism, the "10,000 Things" is a term meaning all of phenomenal reality. [23]