萬年

萬年

1. ten thousand years

   • 意之所欲為者放逸，而不得行，謂之閼性。凡此諸閼，廢虐之主。去廢虐之主，熙熙然以俟死，一日一月，一年十年，吾所謂養。拘此廢虐之主，錄而不舍，戚戚然以至久生，百年千年萬年，非吾所謂養。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     意之所欲为者放逸，而不得行，谓之阏性。凡此诸阏，废虐之主。去废虐之主，熙熙然以俟死，一日一月，一年十年，吾所谓养。拘此废虐之主，录而不舍，戚戚然以至久生，百年千年万年，非吾所谓养。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Liezi, 1^st – 5^th century CE, translated based on A. C. Graham's version

     Yì zhī suǒyù wéi zhě fàngyì, ér bùdé xíng, wèi zhī è xìng. Fán cǐ zhū è, fèi nüè zhī zhǔ. Qǔ fèinüè zhī zhǔ, xīxī rán yǐ sì sǐ, yīrì yīyuè, yīnián shínián, wú suǒwèi yǎng. Jū cǐ fèinüè zhī zhǔ, lù ér bù shè, qīqī rán yǐ zhì jiǔ shēng, bǎinián qiānnián wànnián, fēi wú suǒwèi yǎng. [Pinyin]

     What the will wishes to achieve is freedom and leisure, and if it is denied these, I say that man's nature is restricted. All these restrictions are oppressive masters. If you can rid yourself of these oppressive masters, and wait serenely for death, whether you last a day, a month, a year, ten years, it will be what I call ‘tending life’. If you are bound to these oppressive masters, and cannot escape their ban, though you were to survive miserably for a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, I would not call it ‘tending life’.

2. (figurative) all ages; eternity

• 百年 (bǎinián)
• 千年 (qiānnián)
• 十年 (shínián)

萬年

1. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) very long (describing a long time period)

• (Hokkien) 萬代年／万代年

萬年

1. (～縣) Wannian (a county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China)