倥侗

kōngtóng

adjective

Meanings

HSK 5

那时我年少倥侗，什么道理都不懂。

Nàshí wǒ niánshào kōngtóng, shénme dàoli dōu bù dǒng.

Back then I was young and ignorant, and understood nothing of how things worked.

HSK 7-9

扬雄在《法言》中说：“天降生民，倥侗颛蒙。”

Yáng Xióng zài 《 Fǎyán 》 zhōng shuō: " tiān jiàng shēngmín, kōngtóng zhuānméng. "

Yang Xiong wrote in the Fayan: 'Heaven brings the people into the world ignorant and unenlightened.'

An archaic word, met only in classical texts. 倥 reads kōng here but kǒng in 倥偬 (hurried), and 侗 reads tóng here but Dòng in 侗族, the Dong people.

倥 kōng

侗 dòng