WordTaiwan frequency #14,766
萬聖節
ㄨㄢˋ ㄕㄥˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
“Catholic feast honoring saints and martyrs on November 1; in Taiwan, the evening of October 31 is popularly treated as a Western-style Halloween influenced by commerce, distinct from the original holy meaning.”
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萬
ㄨㄢˋ
The number ten thousand; a very large number; numerous; extremely; absolutely.
聖
ㄕㄥˋ
A sage or saint; holy or sacred; a person of peerless wisdom or virtue; a master of a skill; relating to an emperor.
節
ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Joint or segment of a plant stem or animal bone; section or paragraph; moral integrity or principles; classifier for lessons or train cars; seasonal festival or solar term.
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Words sharing these characters
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- 節目ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄇㄨˋTV or radio program; show; an item or segment in a performance; a scheduled activity or event.
- 細節ㄒㄧˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊdetails; small specific points or particulars; minor or trivial matters.
- 千萬ㄑㄧㄢ ㄨㄢˋten million; countless; many; one must by all means; used to strongly urge or emphasize
- 春節ㄔㄨㄣ ㄐㄧㄝˊSpring Festival; Chinese New Year holiday period; traditionally the start of spring, now the lunar New Year.
- 情節ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄝˊplot or storyline of a story; sequence of events; circumstances or details of a situation; (archaic) moral integrity or personal conduct
- 百萬ㄅㄞˇ ㄨㄢˋone million; a very large number; countless.
- 季節ㄐㄧˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊseason; a period of the year marked by particular weather, activities, or conditions.
- 萬一ㄨㄢˋ ㄧjust in case; if by any chance; a very unlikely event or contingency; used as a conjunction to introduce a hypothetical low-probability scenario
- 節奏ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄗㄡˋrhythm; tempo; musical pulse; beat; cadence; a regular pattern of strong and weak or long and short beats; figuratively, a regular or orderly progression or pace of events
- 關節ㄍㄨㄢ ㄐㄧㄝˊjoint (physiology); key point; critical phase; (Taiwan) secret bribery; (Taiwan) secret code; (Taiwan) scheme
- 節省ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄕㄥˇto save; to use sparingly; to cut down on; to economize
- 萬物ㄨㄢˋ ㄨˋall things; everything that exists; the whole of creation; all objects and beings in the universe.