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「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 18:42:31 JST 「セル」cell (سل) 全然
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 全然 (quánrán) in the early 1800s from 白話小説 (hakuwa shōsetsu, literally “white-speech novels”), a genre using more colloquial styles, initially with furigana indicating a reading of まったく (mattaku, “completely”).[1]
First cited to a text from 1823, with the ぜんぜん (zenzen) reading became more common starting from the late 1890s.[1]
woah didn’t realize it was quite a recent addition to the language :thinking_cirno:- on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ likes this.