Talk:全然

Japanese: Dating for usage with affirmative verb

日本式旅館：汕頭ホテル（崎碌外馬路）日本式と称するも、日本人が経営し、日本料理が食べられる丈の事で、建物は全然支那式で

But it might not be ぜんぜん, but 熟字訓 for some different word. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 01:23, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Suzukaze-c: See also https://kotobank.jp/word/全然-550431, which entry dates the appearance of a generalized emphatic sense to 1945 down below in the 語誌 section, with an initial quote for this sense from 1950. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 17:32, 16 August 2021 (UTC)