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Chinese

		unprecedented; as never before	to never have been; to never have occurred
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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kōngqiánwèiyǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄨㄟˋ ㄧㄡˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kōngqiánwèiyǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄨㄟˋ ㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kongciánwèiyǒu
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-chʻien²-wei⁴-yu³
    • Yale: kūng-chyán-wèi-yǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongchyanweyyeou
    • Palladius: кунцяньвэйю (kuncjanʹvɛjju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ weɪ̯⁵¹ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Idiom

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1. unprecedented; without parallel

   到了革命根據地，就是到了中國歷史幾千年來空前未有的人民大眾當權的時代。 [MSC, trad.]
   到了革命根据地，就是到了中国历史几千年来空前未有的人民大众当权的时代。 [MSC, simp.]

   Dàole gémìng gēnjùdì, jiù shì dào le Zhōngguó lìshǐ jǐqiān nián lái kōngqiánwèiyǒu de rénmín dàzhòng dāngquán de shídài. [Pinyin]

   To come to the revolutionary bases means to enter an epoch unprecedented in the thousands of years of Chinese history, an epoch in which the masses of the people wield state power.