expression, adverb
Literary expression describing a state of rushing or acting with urgency. Rare in everyday speech; mostly found in written narratives.
彼は倉皇として家を飛び出した。
He rushed out of the house in great haste.
The expression 倉皇として derives from the classical Chinese compound 倉皇 (cānghuáng), meaning 'in a fluster' or 'hurriedly'. The Japanese reading そうこう is the on'yomi of the characters. The exact historical path into Japanese is uncertain, but it remains a literary borrowing.