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萬維網

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See also: 万维网

| | ten thousand; a great number; surname | to preserve; to maintain; to hold togetherto preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension | net; network | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | trad. (萬維網) | 萬 | 維 | 網 | | simp. (万维网) | 万 | 维 | 网 | | Literally: “ten thousand-dimensional web”. | | | |

Phono-semantic matching of English World Wide Web, so that the resulting Mandarin pronunciation also has a similar phonological shape (w-w-w-).

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Wànwéiwǎng
(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄨㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maan6 wai4 mong5

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
  * Hanyu Pinyin: Wànwéiwǎng
  * Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄨㄤˇ
  * Tongyong Pinyin: Wànwéiwǎng
  * Wade–Giles: Wan4-wei2-wang3
  * Yale: Wàn-wéi-wǎng
  * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Wannweiwoang
  * Palladius: Ваньвэйван (Vanʹvɛjvan)
  * Sinological IPA (key): /wän⁵¹ weɪ̯³⁵ wɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
  * Jyutping: maan6 wai4 mong5
  * Yale: maahn wàih móhng
  * Cantonese Pinyin: maan6 wai4 mong5
  * Guangdong Romanization: man6 wei4 mong5
  * Sinological IPA (key): /maːn²² wɐi̯²¹ mɔːŋ¹³/

萬維網

(computing) World Wide Web; WWW
- 我們應在數碼革命之後的萬維網時代努力創造一個比發明活字版印刷時的宋朝更加璀璨的新文明。 [MSC, _trad._]
  我们应在数码革命之后的万维网时代努力创造一个比发明活字版印刷时的宋朝更加璀璨的新文明。 [MSC, _simp._]
  From: 2003, 張信剛, 《從活字版到萬維網》, page 10
  Wǒmen yìng zài Shùmǎ Gémìng zhīhòu de Wànwéiwǎng shídài nǔlì chuàngzào yī ge bǐ fāmíng huózì bǎn yìnshuā shí de Sòngcháo gèngjiā cuǐcàn de xīn wénmíng. [Pinyin]
  During the World Wide Web era after the Digital Revolution, we should work to create a new civilization that is more brilliant than the Song dynasty, when movable type printing was invented.

互聯網／互联网 (Hùliánwǎng)
因特網／因特网 (Yīntèwǎng)
網際網絡／网际网络 (Wǎngjì Wǎngluò), 網際網路／网际网路 (Wǎngjì Wǎnglù)

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