WWW in Chinese and Chinese in WWW

Ten-Thousand-Dimensional Web - Wan Wei Wang

CND is the first to make the translation of WWW (World Wide Web) as Wan Wei Wang, a term later accepted by mainland China as the official translation.

Chinese in WWW

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Hua Xia Wen Zhai
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WWW in Chinese

The translation

Before we made the announcement of the opening of this server, we discussed the translation of WWW.

CND translates World Wide Web as wan4wei2 tian1luo2di4wang3 meaning Ten-Thousand-Dimensional Web in Heaven and Net on Earth, and WWW as the abbreviation wan4wei2wang3 , which also starts with three W's.

Literally, wan4 is ten thousands, wei2 is dimension, tian1 is heaven, luo2 is web, di4 is earth, wang3 is net. The combined word indicates that the global information-sharing network is based on multitude of satellite connections in the space and fiber-optics and other links on the ground.

More terms

China News Digest: Zhong1guo2 Xin1wen2 Dian4nao3 Wang3luo4
CND Chinese Magazine: Hua2xia4 Wen2zhai1

World Wide Web: wan4wei2 tian1luo2di4wang3
WWW: wan4wei2wang3
anonymous ftp: wu2 ji4ming2 wen2jian4 cun2qu3
e-mail: dian4zi you2jian4
gopher: kao3fang3

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Translation of WWW etc by Lix, YFC, WL, TWX, CZ, RPZ, MHY, GX, BX and other CND members
Written by WL, BQW
Last updated 0 day(s) ago

Converted from hz7 codes by perl scripts written by WL, amended by GC.