千恩万谢
qiān ēn wàn xiè
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 千恩萬謝
To thank someone again and again, with deep feeling. Describes how a grateful person behaves, typically after being helped out of real trouble.
Cảm ơn rối rít, cảm ơn đi cảm ơn lại với lòng biết ơn sâu sắc. Dùng để tả thái độ của người vừa được giúp đỡ lúc khó khăn.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thiên ân vạn tạ” (thien-an-van-ta). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “千恩万谢” mean?
To thank someone again and again, with deep feeling. Describes how a grateful person behaves, typically after being helped out of real trouble. Literally: a thousand kindnesses, ten thousand thanks
Is “千恩万谢” formal or informal?
千恩万谢 is generally neutral.