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人山人海
  jan4 saan1 jan4 hoi2   jyutping
  ren2 shan1 ren2 hai3   pinyin
a large crowd; people everywhere; a huge crowd of people

Literally it means mountain and sea made up of people. It is a metaphor of a very large stack of people.

UK. idiom: All the world and his wife.

Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
人山人海

This word has been viewed 2550 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 22nd Nov 2005 05:39 and last edited on 28th Aug 2013 03:26
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Characters in this word:

 jan4  -  person; human being
 saan1  -  mountain; hill; peak
 jan4  -  person; human being
 hoi2  -  sea, ocean

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On the 30th night, this place will be completely filled with people, impossible to move.
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