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[citation needed] Thus 100,000 in Chinese is expressed as 10 ten-thousands; similarly, whereas a million is "a thousand thousands" in Western languages, the Chinese word for it is bǎiwàn (simplified Chinese: 百万; traditional Chinese: 百萬), which literally means "hundred ten-thousands".
The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...
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
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]
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]
The Dilbert comic strip from May 8, 2009, features a character supporting an improbable claim by saying "Give me ten minutes and then check Wikipedia." [ 305 ] In July 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a comedy series called Bigipedia , which was set on a website which was a parody of Wikipedia. [ 306 ]
The 2001 novel The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford is a fictional account of this group's exploits. [25] [26] Shane Brennan's In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand: A Journey on Foot through Turkey, Syria and Iraq (London: Robert Hale, 2005) is an account of his 2000 journey to retrace the steps of the Ten Thousand.
Long live, long live, long may you live for ten thousand years, Long live Comrade Chairman Mao for ten thousand years! Clear away the fog and disperse the dark clouds The sky will be sunny. The ship of revolution rides the wind and waves. The future is brilliant. Great commander, great helmsman, Dear Chairman Mao!