BOTH  倆

ALL of TWO THINGS. [GRAMMAR]
Hypernym
  • ALLCOMMON so that of NONE NOT.
    • COMMONEXISTING IN MANY THINGS OR PLACES.
      • EXISTBE-IN the UNIVERSE of SPACE AND TIME.
        • BE INRELATION between a THING AND what that THING FILLS OR PART:partially FILLS....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current binary universal quantifier is liǎng 兩, which can quantify both subjects and objects.

2. Shuāng 雙 is much rarer, and the word never quantifies the object so that the word is marginal in the group.

Modern Chinese Criteria
倆

雙方

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    BOTH

    uterque refers to "both" as two unities.

    ambo refers to both as halves of a pair.

Words

兩  liǎng OC: raŋʔ MC: li̯ɐŋ 60 Attributions

The current binary universal quantifier is liǎng 兩, which can quantify both subjects and objects.

    Word relations
  • Synon: 雙/BOTH Shuāng 雙 is much rarer, and the word never quantifies the object so that the word is marginal in the group.

    Syntactic words
  • nadVsubjectboth the subjects (often indefinite) together
  • npairboth
  • vad.VtoNobjectboth the objects; two objects
  • vadNpairthe pair of, the two, both 兩手，兩目，兩耳
  • vadV君子兩進，小人兩廢: under both kinds of conditionsLZ
雙  shuāng OC: srooŋ MC: ʂɣɔŋ 2 Attributions

Shuāng 雙 is much rarer, and the word never quantifies the object so that the word is marginal in the group.

    Word relations
  • Synon: 兩/BOTH The current binary universal quantifier is liǎng 兩, which can quantify both subjects and objects.

    Syntactic words
  • nadVboth

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: