忐忑
Meanings
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- 1.apprehensive; on edge
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Wiktionary
- 1.perturbed; nervous; uneasy; fidgety
- 2.sincere
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意), from 上 (“up”), 下 (“down”) and 心 (“heart”). Unknown. Earliest attestation was in the Song dynasty as 憳忒 in Jiyun. It is a word where the onsets are shared between the syllables (雙聲詞), likely reduplicative and/or onomatopoeic in origin. Compare 忒忒 (tètè, “throbbing (abnormally)”) and 突突 (tūtū, “palpitating”) (Ma, 2007), as well as Vietnamese thấp thỏm, nhấp nhỏm (“uneasy, fidgety”).
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