"悠久" is often used to describe a period of history (I read it from ), and I wonder how does the adv "悠" work in "悠久".
I've searched, the complete word means,
悠久，汉语词汇，形容词（褒义）。
拼音：yōu jiǔ
词义：长久；久远。
But I can't figure out what does "悠" mean.
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悠 has the same meaning as 久 in this case.
It is a kind of word making method in Chinese, which combines two synonymic characters together. Perhaps the terminology tautology can be used here.
For example: 亲吻 拥抱 战斗 早晨 林木
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Yip Po-ching CLCS uses the term juxtapositional （not accepted by US(?) spellcheck）type V-V:亲吻、拥抱，N-N： 战斗、早晨、林木， Chinese term 并列– user6065Dec 13, 2017 at 13:41
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@user6065 Thanks for your correction. And
战斗is either V-V or N-N, as verb or noun should be decided depending on the context. Dec 13, 2017 at 14:10