míng​wén​xiá'ěr

famous far and wide

  • created sense approved 名闻遐迩/名聞遐邇 · míng​wén​xiá'ěr · famous far and wide — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    名闻遐迩 / 名聞遐邇

    míng​wén​xiá'ěr

    famous far and wide

    (literary) well-known both far and near; famous everywhere; its literally meaning is that one's name is heard in distant places ([[遐|遐|xia2]]) and nearby places ([[迩|邇|er3]])

    名闻 (literal) → 名闻/名聞 · míng​wén · well-known 遐迩 (literal) → 遐迩/遐邇 · xiá'ěr · far and near

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense