庸詎

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Chinese

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ordinary; to use how (interj. of surprise)
trad. (庸詎)
simp. (庸讵)

Etymology

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Literally, "by what; with what; because of what", according to an explanation given in the Jingdian Shiwen. See quotation below.

Pronunciation

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BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ/
English use; advantage

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
No. 15459 7052 7058
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ/ /*ɡaʔ/ /*ɡas/

Adverb

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庸詎

  1. (literary, rhetorical question) how

Synonyms

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