萬維天羅地網 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

萬 wàn ten thousand; innumerable
維 wéi maintain, preserve, safeguard
天 tiān sky, heaven; god, celestial
羅 luó net for catching birds; gauze
地 dì earth; soil, ground; region
網 wǎng net, web; network