万维天罗地网 wàn wéi tiān luó dì wǎng

DEFINITIONS

  1. World Wide Web (WWW)
  2. lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth
  3. term coined by China News Digest and abbreviated to 萬維網|万维网[Wan4 wei2 wang3]

CHARACTERS

万 wàn ten thousand; innumerable
维 wéi maintain, preserve, safeguard
天 tiān sky, heaven; god, celestial
罗 luó net for catching birds; gauze
地 dì earth; soil, ground; region
网 wǎng net; network; KangXi radical 122