萬人空巷

Chinese

		ten thousand; a great number; surname	man; person; people	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	lane; alley
trad. (萬人空巷)		萬	人	空	巷
simp. (万人空巷)		万	人	空	巷
Literally: “ten thousand people (turning out to the event, and) alleyways are empty”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wànrénkōngxiàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄖㄣˊ ㄎㄨㄥ ㄒㄧㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ jan⁴ hung¹ hong⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wànrénkōngxiàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄖㄣˊ ㄎㄨㄥ ㄒㄧㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wànrénkongsiàng
    • Wade–Giles: wan⁴-jên²-kʻung¹-hsiang⁴
    • Yale: wàn-rén-kūng-syàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannrenkongshianq
    • Palladius: ваньжэнькунсян (vanʹžɛnʹkunsjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹ ʐən³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶ jan⁴ hung¹ hong⁶
    • Yale: maahn yàhn hūng hohng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ jan⁴ hung¹ hong⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ yen⁴ hung¹ hong⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² jɐn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵ hɔːŋ²²/

Idiom

萬人空巷

1. the whole town turns out to (an event); all of the people in a place have turned out to (an event)