很多

Chinese

		very; rather; quite	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-
trad. (很多)		很	多
simp. #(很多)		很	多

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hěnduō

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄣˇ ㄉㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): han² do¹
• Wu (Suzhou, Wugniu): ³hen-tou₁

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hěnduō
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄣˇ ㄉㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hěnduo
    • Wade–Giles: hên³-to¹
    • Yale: hěn-dwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heenduo
    • Palladius: хэньдо (xɛnʹdo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xən²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: han² do¹
    • Yale: hán dō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: han² do¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hen² do¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐn³⁵ tɔː⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ³hen-tou₁
    • MiniDict: hen^上 tou^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /hən⁵² təu¹¹/

Adjective

很多

1. many; much; a lot

   他有很多朋友。  ―  Tā yǒu hěnduō péngyǒu.  ―  He has many friends.

   他改變了很多。／他改变了很多。  ―  Tā gǎibiàn le hěnduō.  ―  He has changed a lot.

   蒂姆·伯頓導演的電影出名的原因是在這些影片中有很多的曲線。 [MSC, trad.]
   蒂姆·伯顿导演的电影出名的原因是在这些影片中有很多的曲线。 [MSC, simp.]

   Dìmǔ Bódùn dǎoyǎn de diànyǐng chūmíng de yuányīn shì zài zhèxiē yǐngpiàn zhōng yǒu hěnduō de qūxiàn. [Pinyin]

   The movies Tim Burton directs are famous for their many curves.

Synonyms

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• 一系列 (yīxìliè)
• 不少 (bùshǎo)
• 不老少 (bùlǎoshǎo) (colloquial)
• 儦儦 (biāobiāo) (literary)
• 千千 (qiānqiān) (literary)
• 千百 (qiānbǎi) (literary)
• 好些 (hǎoxiē)
• 好多 (hǎoduō)
• 孔多 (kǒngduō) (literary)
• 幾多 / 几多 (gei² do¹) (Cantonese)
• 廣 / 广 (literary, or in compounds)
• 廣大 / 广大 (guǎngdà) (of people)
• 延延 (yányán) (literary)
• 𣍐少 / 𫧃少 (Hokkien)
• 浩瀚 (hàohàn)
• 浩繁 (hàofán)
• 百
• 眾多 / 众多 (zhòngduō)
• 繁多 (fánduō)
• 萌生 (méngshēng) (literary)
• 許多 / 许多 (xǔduō)
• 諸多 / 诸多 (zhūduō)
• 颮颮 / 飑飑 (literary)

Dialectal synonyms of 很多 (“many; much; a lot”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		許多, 甚多
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	老些, 老些個
	Taiwan	很多, 好多, 滿多, 許多
Cantonese	Guangzhou	好多
	Hong Kong	好多
	Taishan	好多
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	當多, 已多
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蓋多
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	當多, 盡多, 已多
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	當多, 已多
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	當多, 盡多, 已多
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	真多, 足多
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	野濟
Southern Min	Xiamen	真濟, 野濟, 誠濟, 有夠濟
	Quanzhou	真濟, 野濟, 誠濟, 有夠濟
	Zhangzhou	盡濟, 蓋濟, 足濟, 有夠濟
	Taipei	真濟, 誠濟
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	真濟, 誠濟
	Kaohsiung	有夠濟, 足濟, 真濟, 誠濟, 蓋濟
	Yilan	有夠濟, 足濟, 誠濟, 盡濟
	Changhua (Lukang)	真濟, 誠濟
	Taichung	誠濟, 蓋濟, 足濟
	Tainan	有夠濟, 足濟, 真濟, 誠濟, 蓋濟
	Hsinchu	真濟, 誠濟
	Kinmen	足濟, 誠濟
	Penghu (Magong)	真濟, 誠濟
	Penang (Hokkien)	誠濟
	Manila (Hokkien)	野濟, 真濟
	Puning	好濟
Wu	Shanghai	老多, 交關, 交關多, 造反, 行情, 介許多
	Hangzhou	造反