萬壽無疆

Chinese

		longevity	endless; limitless
trad. (萬壽無疆)		萬壽	無疆
simp. (万寿无疆)		万寿	无疆

Occurred several times in the Classic of Poetry, for example, in poem 154 (《詩經·豳風·七月》):

躋彼公堂，稱彼兕觥，萬壽無疆。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]

跻彼公堂，称彼兕觥，万寿无疆。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Jī bǐ gōngtáng, chēng bǐ sì gōng, wànshòu wújiāng. [Pinyin]

And go to the hall of our prince,
There raise the cup of rhinoceros horn,
And wish him long life, that he may live for ever.

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.ma[n]-s [N-t]uʔ|[N-t]uʔ-s ma kaŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*mlans djuʔ|djus ma kaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	萬	壽	壽	無	疆
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2	1/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wàn	shòu	shòu	wú	jiāng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjon^H ›	‹ dzyuw^X ›	‹ dzyuw^H ›	‹ mju ›	‹ kjang ›
Old Chinese	/*C.ma[n]-s/	/*[N-t]uʔ/	/*[N-t]uʔ-s/	/*ma/	/*kaŋ/
English	10000	longevity	longevity	not have	boundary
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

萬壽無疆

boundless longevity
祝毛主席萬壽無疆 [MSC, trad.]
祝毛主席万寿无疆 [MSC, simp.]
zhù Máo zhǔxí wànshòuwújiāng [Pinyin]
Long live Chairman Mao

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