BOTH    倆

ALL of TWO THINGS. [GRAMMAR]
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 ／
Hypernym
  • ALL　COMMON so that of NONE NOT. (anc: 8/0, child: 6)
  • COMMON　EXISTING IN MANY THINGS OR PLACES. (anc: 7/0, child: 2)
  • EXIST　BE-IN the UNIVERSE of SPACE AND TIME. (anc: 6/0, child: 5)
  • 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 (2 items)

    兩  liǎng OC: raŋʔ MC: li̯ɐŋ 61 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