万维天罗地网
Traditional form:
萬維天羅地網
Pinyin (reading):
Wànwéi Tiānluó Dìwǎng
Definitions:
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth
- term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網／万维网 ( Wànwéiwǎng)
Characters:
- 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
- 维 - to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 罗 - gauze, net; to collect, to display
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 网 - net; network
Traditional characters: