Great Wall of China - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Etymology
    • 1.2 Proper noun
      • 1.2.1 Derived terms
      • 1.2.2 Translations
      • 1.2.3 See also
    • 1.3 Further reading

English

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Etymology

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First used by Daniel Defoe on page 29 of his 1729 pamphlet The Advantages of peace and commerce: with some remarks on the East-India trade; attested but not much in currency until the early 1900s, when it supplanted "the Chinese wall" (not to be confused with the later jargon term Chinese Wall), perhaps in response to or as part of exaggerated accounts of the wall's size and construction.

Proper noun

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the Great Wall of China

  1. An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.
    • 1767, Annual register, or a view of the history and politics and literature for the year[1], page 38, column 2:

      Of the Mongall Tartars.
      The Mongalls are a numerous people, and occupy a large extent of country, from this place to the Kallgan, which ſignifies the everlaſting Wall, or the great wall of China. From this wall they ſtretch themſelves northward as far as the river Amoor; and from the Amoor, weſtward, to the Baykail ſea ; where they border with the territories of the Kontayſha, or prince of the black Kalmucks. On the ſouth, they are bounded by a nation called Tonguts, among whom the Delay Lama has his residence.

    • 1796, The Annual Register, or, a view of the History, Politicks, and Literature for the Year 1767[2], 5th edition, London: J. Dodsley, page 38:

      The Mongalls are a numerous people, and occupy a large extent of country, from this place to the Kallgan, which ſignines the everlaſting Wall, or the great wall of China.

    • 1894, Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr., William Lewis Sachtleben, “Over the Gobi Desert and through the Western Gate of the Great Wall”, in Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking[3], New York: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 190-191:

      Near that same fortieth parallel of latitude on which our Asiatic journey was begun and ended, we now struck, at its extreme western limit, the Great Wall of China. The Kiayu-kuan, or "Jade Gate," by which it is here intersected, was originally so called from the fact that it led into the Khotan country, whence the Chinese traders brought back the precious mineral.

    • 2018 August 2, Christina Zhao, “Great Wall of China Collapse: Poor Renovation Works And Heavy Rainfall Blamed”, in Newsweek[4], archived from the original on 02 August 2018:

      A northern section of the Great Wall of China collapsed after a period of heavy rain last month, with many blaming poor-quality renovations for the deterioration of the iconic landmark.

    • 2020 August 7, Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, “Beijing Launches Another Demolition Drive, This Time in Its Bucolic Suburbs”, in The New York Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 August 2020, Asia Pacific‎[6]:

      Backhoes moved house by house, laying waste to a community called Xitai that was built in a plush green valley on the northern edge of Beijing, only a short walk from the Great Wall of China.

    • 2022 February 6, Mari Saito, Winni Zhou, “Snowboarding-Proud Kiwi Sadowski-Synnott bags New Zealand's first Winter Games gold”, in Jacqueline Wong, Clare Fallon, editors, Reuters[7], archived from the original on 30 May 2022:

      Sadowski-Synnott scored 92.88 on her final run, landing back-to-back 1080s on a challenging course resembling the Great Wall of China.
      Asked how she felt about making history as the island nation's first Winter Games gold medallist, she said it made her a "proud Kiwi".

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Great Wall of China.

Derived terms

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  • Great Firewall of China
  • Great Wall of Sand

Translations

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Chinese fortification

  • Arabic: سُور اَلصِّين اَلْعَظِيمm (sūr aṣ-ṣīn al-ʕaẓīm)
  • Bulgarian: Великата китайска стенаf (Velikata kitajska stena)
  • Burmese: တရုတ်ပြည်မှ မဟာရံတံတိုင်းကြီး (ta.rutpranyhma. ma.haramtamtuing:kri:)
  • Catalan: Gran Muralla Xinesaf
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 萬里長城万里长城 (maan6 lei5 coeng4 sing4)
    Hokkien: 長城长城(zh-min-nan) (Tn̂g-siâⁿ)
    Mandarin: 長城长城(zh) (Chángchéng), 萬里長城万里长城(zh) (Wànlǐ Chángchéng)
  • Danish: Den Kinesiske Murc (definite form)
  • Dhivehi: ޗައިނާގެ ބޮޑު ފާރު (caināge boḍu fāru)
  • Dutch: Chinese Muur
  • Finnish: Kiinan muuri(fi)
  • French: Grande Muraille(fr)f, Grande Muraille de Chine(fr)f
  • Georgian: ჩინეთის დიდი კედელი (činetis didi ḳedeli)
  • German: Chinesische Mauer(de)f
  • Greek: Μέγα Σινικό Τείχοςn (Méga Sinikó Teíchos)
  • Hungarian: kínai nagy fal(hu)
  • Indonesian: Tembok Besar Tiongkok
  • Italian: Grande muraglia cinesef
  • Japanese: 万里の長城(ja) (ばんりのちょうじょう, Banri no Chōjō)
  • Javanese: ꦠꦺꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴꦏ꧀ꦫꦱꦼꦏ꧀ꦱꦕꦶꦤ (témbokraseksacina)
  • Kazakh: Ұлы Қытай қорғаны (Ūly Qytai qorğany)
  • Khmer: មហាកំផែងចិន (mɔhaa kɑmpʰaeng chən)
  • Korean: 만리장성(萬里長城)(ko) (Mallijangseong)
  • Manchu: ᡧᠠᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨᠵᠠᠰᡝ (šanggiyan jase), ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ (golmin hecen)
  • Mongolian: Цагаан хэрэм (Cagaan xerem)
  • Norman: Graund-murâle dé Chènef (Guernsey), Grande Muthâle dé Chinnef (Jersey)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: Den kinesiske murm
    Nynorsk: den kinesiske muren
  • Polish: Wielki Mur Chińskim
  • Portuguese: Muralha da Chinaf, Grande Muralhaf, Grande Muralha da China
  • Russian: Вели́кая Кита́йская стена́f (Velíkaja Kitájskaja stená)
  • Spanish: Gran Muralla Chinaf
  • Sundanese: ᮒᮦᮙ᮪ᮘᮧᮊ᮪ ᮌᮨᮓᮦ ᮎᮤᮔ (témbok gedé cina)
  • Swahili: Ukuta Mkubwa wa China, Ukuta wa China
  • Swedish: kinesiska muren
  • Tajik: Девори Бузурги Чин (Devor-i Buzurg-i Čin)
  • Thai: กำแพงเมืองจีน (gam-pɛɛng mʉʉang-jiin)
  • Tibetan: ལྕགས་རི་རིང་པོ། (lcags ri ring po)
  • Uyghur: سەدىچىن سېپىلى (sedichin sëpili)
  • Uzbek: Buyuk Xitoy devori
  • Vietnamese: Vạn Lí Trường Thành, Vạn Lý Trường Thành (萬里長城), Trường Thành (長城)
  • Welsh: Mur Mawr Tsieinam
  • Yakut: Кытай улуу эркинэ (Kıtay uluu erkine)

See also

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  • Chinese Wall
  • Great Wall

Further reading

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