前所未有

Chinese

		front, forepart; in front; past front, forepart; in front; past; former; previous; last; before; preceding; earlier; ago; future; time ahead; first; top; battlefront; to move forward	actually; place; (nominalization prefix)	to never have been; to never have occurred
trad. (前所未有)		前	所	未有
simp. #(前所未有)		前	所	未有

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiánsuǒwèiyǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄟˋ ㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin⁴ so² mei⁶ jau⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiánsuǒwèiyǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄟˋ ㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciánsuǒwèiyǒu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien²-so³-wei⁴-yu³
    • Yale: chyán-swǒ-wèi-yǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyansuooweyyeou
    • Palladius: цяньсовэйю (cjanʹsovɛjju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ weɪ̯⁵¹ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin⁴ so² mei⁶ jau⁵
    • Yale: chìhn só meih yáuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin⁴ so² mei⁶ jau⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin⁴ so² méi⁶ yeo⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn²¹ sɔː³⁵ mei̯²² jɐu̯¹³/

Idiom

前所未有

1. unprecedented

   • 這就是整個兒地推翻世界和中國的黑暗面，把它們轉變過來成為前所未有的光明世界。 [MSC, trad.]
     这就是整个儿地推翻世界和中国的黑暗面，把它们转变过来成为前所未有的光明世界。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhè jiù shì zhěnggèr de tuīfān shìjiè hé Zhōngguó de hēi'ànmiàn, bǎ tāmen zhuǎnbiàn guolai chéngwéi qiánsuǒwèiyǒu de guāngmíng shìjiè. [Pinyin]

     That is, to completely banish darkness from the world and from China and change the world into a world of light such as never previously existed.