神物
Chinese
God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being |
thing; object; matter | ||
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| simp. and trad. (神物) |
神 | 物 | |
| anagram | 物神 | ||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: shénwù
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ ㄨˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shénwù
- Wade–Giles: shên2-wu4
- Yale: shén-wù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shernwuh
- Palladius: шэньу (šɛnʹu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂən³⁵ u⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Noun
神物
- (literary) wonder; phenomenon
- 但戰爭不是神物，仍是世間的一種必然運動，因此，孫子的規律，「知彼知己，百戰不殆」，仍是科學的真理。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Dàn zhànzhēng bù shì shénwù, réng shì shìjiān de yī zhǒng bìrán yùndòng, yīncǐ, Sūnzǐ de guīlǜ, “zhībǐzhījǐ, bǎizhànbùdài”, réng shì kēxué de zhēnlǐ. [Pinyin]
- Yet war is in no way supernatural, but a mundane process governed by necessity. That is why Sun Wu Tzu's axiom, "Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat", remains a scientific truth.
但战争不是神物，仍是世间的一种必然运动，因此，孙子的规律，「知彼知己，百战不殆」，仍是科学的真理。 [MSC, simp.]
- (literary, Chinese mythology, Taoism) immortal; supernatural entity; celestial being; transcendent being
Synonyms
- (immortal): 神仙 (shénxiān)