>>872 also of interest: https://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1431720556/412
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chuffed
very british for a word to just occasionally mean the precise opposite of what it normally means
>>887
Contronyms are not so unusual in any language I know. Worse yet, it's often not noted in the dictionary and instead considered strictly rhetorical. For instance, ironical uses of the word "totally", which the least ambiguous sarcasm indicator in English I can think of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym
> eunuch
> He and his son Wang Meng (‰¤–G) died under torture, while another son, Wang Ji (‰¤‹g), died in prison
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also I'd like to point out for those as unobservant as me that the name of this 2nd century imperial eunuch's son literally translates to "King 𝓜𝓸𝓮~"
>>954
Zheng He adopted a son, so maybe that?
>>954
Lao Ai's penis size if true!
(srs answer: most likely both were adopted; it was an established custom that adopted sons could inherit.
Anyway, his downfall came when a different kind of bastard named Yang Qiu caught wind that he and his disciples had been çƒ榷ing--uh, in modern terms, winning themselves an awful lot of "no-bid contracts". Yang would die later the same year because his anti-eunuch crusade wasn't popular with the eunuchs.)
also according to reconstructed Middle Chinese, Wang Ji sounded a little bit like like "hwankit", if not at the time, then at least for the next few centuries
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