千军万马
qiān jūn wàn mǎ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 千軍萬馬
A vast army; by extension, any huge and powerful mass of people or force. Used for real troops and, figuratively, for overwhelming momentum, noise or fierce competition among great numbers.
Nghìn quân vạn ngựa: đội quân rất đông và hùng mạnh. Cũng dùng theo nghĩa bóng cho lực lượng đông đảo, khí thế ào ạt hay cuộc cạnh tranh giữa vô số người.
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 quân vạn mã” (thien-quan-van-ma). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “千军万马” mean?
A vast army; by extension, any huge and powerful mass of people or force. Used for real troops and, figuratively, for overwhelming momentum, noise or fierce competition among great numbers. Literally: armies by the thousand, horses by the ten thousand
Is “千军万马” formal or informal?
千军万马 is generally neutral.