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| Mar 7, 2014 at 18:01 | history | edited | 孤影萍踪 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2014 at 5:58 | comment | added | user4072 | @Victor Modern Chinese is based on ancient Chinese, so you can't look on them seperately. And because of the influence from ancient Chinese, the use of 雄雌 for human does not disappear in modern Chinese. See also the comment from 孤影萍踪. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 5:56 | comment | added | Victor | @孤影萍踪 I don't think the poster is asking about the usage in 文言文 (archaic Chinese). Otherwise he/she would not post on a Chinese forum with English interface, rather than only Chinese characters. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 5:49 | comment | added | Victor | @songyuanyao I wonder why you are always talking about 文言文 (ancient Chinese) rather than 白话文 (modern Chinese) ? Do you think that the poster is asking the archaic language? According to your logic, you should talk about Old English (Anglo-Saxon) in English forum. I believe that the poster is obvious asking the modern Chinese rather than archaic Chinese. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 19:06 | comment | added | 孤影萍踪 | 公母 can also be used for human. In my dialect(northeast), we say 公母俩 to mean "husband and wife". We can also use 公母 on human in humorous ways. For example, if someone mistakes a girl for a guy (maybe the girl has short hair and wears a suit and tie), then we can tease that person saying: 你怎么分不清公母啊？ 雄雌 can be used for human for sure. One sentence in 《木兰诗》 goes: 安能辨我是雄雌？The word 英雄 is well-known, but there is also 英雌(means 女英雄) but not used very often. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 4:08 | comment | added | user4072 | @Victor 雄雌 can be used for humans especially at ancient times. For example "但闻儿啼，不暇问雌雄。" means "The crying sound of babies can be heard, but the people have no time to find out they are girl or boy" | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 1:32 | comment | added | Victor | @user3992 男女 for humans, 公母 for animals, 雄雌 for animals and plants. (Nobody use 雄雌 for humans.) | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 12:16 | comment | added | user3992 | Just to summarize , 男女 for Humans, 公母 for animals, and to be more scientific 雄雌. | |
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 16:49 | history | answered | fefe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |