万岁
wàn suì · Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty
Character breakdown
Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.
How to learn 万岁
Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.
When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.
Words with the same characters
Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.
classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests); variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year; years old
万wànsurname Wan; ten thousand; a great number
千万qiānwànten million; countless; many; one must by all means
万一wànyījust in case; if by any chance; contingency
压岁钱yāsuìqiánmoney given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
成千上万chéngqiān-shàngwànlit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless