某
Meanings
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- 1.some
- 2.a certain
- 3.sb or sth indefinite
- 4.such-and-such
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Wiktionary
- 1.unspecified or not explicitly named (amount, person, or thing); some; a certain; so-and-so
- 2.I
- 3.Used in place of a person's given name, for anonymity purposes.
- 4.Used in place of someone else's given name, to show dissatisfaction.
- 5.Used in place of one's own given name, to refer to oneself with an intensified emotion.
- 6.wife
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 木 (“tree”) + 甘 (“sweet”); original form of 梅 (OC *mɯː, “Chinese plum”). Later borrowed to represent 某 (OC *mɯʔ, “a certain”). Similar to 果 and 栗. Similar but unrelated to 柑. Possibly Austroasiatic; compare Mon မူ (“what; anything”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
他住在這附近某個地方。
He lives somewhere about here.
在某種程度上我能了解你。
I can understand you to some extent.
我想某一天拜访你的国家。
I'd like to visit your country someday.
我記得我在某個地方見過她。
I remember meeting her somewhere.
您能把這件大衣放在某個地方？
Could you put this coat somewhere?
我知道我把它放在地下室的某個地方了。
I know I left it somewhere down here in the basement.
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Derived terms
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