千家万户 qiānjiā-wànhù every family (idiom)
How to remember 千家万户: 千 thousand + 家 home + 万 ten thousand + 户 door = every family (idiom).
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How it is used
- A four-character idiom for 'every household', all the ordinary families of a society - 电力送到千家万户 (diànlì sòngdào qiānjiā-wànhù) electricity reaches every home.
- Evokes the broad reach of something into everyone's daily life; warm, slightly rhetorical tone.
- Common in journalism and speeches about policy, technology, or products spreading to the masses.