The paper studies the syntactic structure of the phrase composed of an estimating or measuring word and an antonymous adjective pair such as zhimali daxiao （ as tiny as a sesame grain）, in which zhimali （sesame grain） is used to estimate or measure something that is tiny while daxiao is the combination of two antonymous adjectives. It is generally considered that the antonymous adjective pairs used in such structures are nouns. However, after thorough investigation and multidimensional analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that they ...
