存古

Chinese

		exist; deposit; store exist; deposit; store; keep; survive	ancient; old
simp. and trad. (存古)		存	古

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cúngǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄍㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cúngǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cúngǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun²-ku³
    • Yale: tswún-gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tswenguu
    • Palladius: цуньгу (cunʹgu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən³⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Adjective

存古

1. (of a language) preserving archaic features

   • 其次，我們通過黃坑話跟原始閩北語構擬的比較，梳理了黃坑話的存古與創新，認為黃坑話應該屬於目前所知的閩北語中最早分出的一支。 [MSC, trad.]
     其次，我们通过黄坑话跟原始闽北语构拟的比较，梳理了黄坑话的存古与创新，认为黄坑话应该属于目前所知的闽北语中最早分出的一支。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2019 December, 沈瑞清, 《黃坑話與早期閩北語》, in Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, →ISSN, volume 12, issue 1, page 52

     Qícì, wǒmen tōngguò huángkēnghuà gēn yuánshǐ mǐnběiyǔ gòunǐ de bǐjiào, shūlǐ le huángkēnghuà de cúngǔ yǔ chuàngxīn, rènwèi huángkēnghuà yìnggāi shǔyú mùqián suǒ zhī de mǐnběiyǔ zhōng zuìzǎo fēnchū de yī zhī. [Pinyin]

     Next, through comparison of the Huangkeng dialect with Proto-Northern Min, we sorted through the Huangkeng dialect's conservative and innovative qualities, and believe that the Huangkeng dialect should belong to the earliest branch of Northern Min that we currently know of.