茫茫 mángmáng boundless
boundless; vast and obscure
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How it is used
- Vast and boundless, stretching hazily out of sight - 茫茫大海 (mángmáng dàhǎi) the boundless sea, 茫茫人海 (mángmáng rénhǎi) the vast sea of humanity.
- Reduplicated adjective for immense, indistinct expanses (sea, snow, desert, night, crowds).
- Literary/evocative; often conveys smallness or lostness within the vastness.