量
Meanings
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- 1.capacity
- 2.quantity
- 3.amount
- 4.to estimate
- 5.abbr. for 量词[liàng cí], classifier (in Chinese grammar)
- 6.measure word
- 1.to measure
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Wiktionary
- 1.to measure
- 2.to estimate; to evaluate
- 3.measuring vessel, such as the dou or hu
- 4.measure; measurement; quantity
- 5.capacity; volume
- 6.pramana
- 7.large steelyard
- 8.to estimate; to approximate
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Etymology
Inconclusive. In the oracle bone and bronze scripts, the most common form was 日 (“sun”) + 東 (“bag; east”). Here are a few proposed interpretations as an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): * 日 was sometimes replaced with 田, so Qiu Xigui thinks that it may be the original character of 糧 (OC *raŋ, “grain field”). * Yu Xingwu interprets it as measuring something under the sun. * Guo Moruo interprets it as the sun rising in the east – original character of 亮 (OC *raŋs). * Huang Dekuan suspects the 日 is actually 昜 (OC *laŋ) as the phonetic component. Shuowen interprets this as a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *raŋ, *raŋs): phonetic 曏 (OC *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs) + semantic 重 (“weight; heavy”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-raŋ (“to count, to measure”) (STEDT under *(g/k)raŋ; Schuessler, 2007). Cognate to Tibetan བགྲང (bgrang, “to count”), Khaling ʾkhran-ne, Burmese ခြင် (hkrang, “to measure capacity”), Nusu xɹɯ³¹ (“to count”). Pronunciation 2 is possibly a *-s suffixed exopassive derivation of Pronunciation 1; thus it means "what is measured → a measure" and is cognate to Tibetan གྲངས (grangs, “number”) (see also Unger (1983))
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Components
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Example sentences
我明天儘量來。
I'll come tomorrow if I can.
她有膽量說出來。
She had the nerve to speak out.
我會儘量協助您。
I'll help you if I can.
我會儘量幫助您。
I'll help you if I can.
我會儘量協助你的。
I'll help you if I can.
我會儘量協助妳的。
I'll help you if I can.
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