SALARY    工資祿

MONEY GIVEN to someone who WORKS for his/her WORK.
INCOMEPAYWAGESEARNINGSPAYMENTREMUNERATIONFEE(S)STIPENDINCOMEINFORMAL TAKE-HOMEFORMAL EMOLUMENT
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for apanages, emoluments or salaries received by any person of high status is lù 祿. 2. Gǔ 穀 refers specifically to salary in the form of grain, which was the most current form of payment, and the word sometimes refers in a generalised way to salaries of any kind. 3. Fèng 奉／俸 is a formal and polite word for a salary, and the term became current from Han times onwards.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 HUMAN BODY 12. 祿，最早的報酬之稱，用於先秦分封制；用於後世秩俸制則具莊重色彩。 俸，漢以來報酬的通稱。 秩，按官吏等級給於的報酬。 穀，因報酬用穀物支付，曾作為官吏報酬的代稱。 “ 薪 ” 是薪水的省稱，宋時即出現，指額外的補貼，至晚近才將工資、薪金合為一體。
Modern Chinese Criteria
工資 報酬 酬勞 收入 工錢 工薪 薪資 薪水 薪金 薪給 薪俸 薪 月薪 月廩 軍餉 餉 俸祿 官俸 傣 祿 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • BRIBENOT LEGITIMATE GIFT so as to INFLUENCE the DECISIONS of an OFFICIAL OR POWERFUL HUMAN.
  • EXPENSEMONEY used for a certain purpose.
Hypernym
  • MONEY　STANDARD SYSTEM of ARTEFACTS, PRODUCED CONFORMING to a LAW, AND USED EVERYWHERE IN A SOCIETY, CONFORMING to DEFINED RULES, to EXCHANGE ALL OTHER THINGS for. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.78

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    SALARY

    lucrum refers to gain deserved and gained by oneself.

    emolumentum refers to gain falling to one's share without any exertion of one's own commensurate with that gain.

    quaestus refers to the steadily continued gains of a regular occupation, like "earnings".

    compendium refers typically to a single gain of a considerable amount, a sudden non-standard income.

  • 韓非子同義詞研究 ( HANFEI TONGYI 2004) p. 96

  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 31

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 154

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 123

    • Words (10 items)

    祿  lù OC: b-rooɡ MC: luk 48 Attributions

    The general word for apanages, emoluments or salaries received by any person of high status is lù 祿.

      Word relations
    • Object: 干/SEEK Gān 干 refers to the abstract pursuit of aims in life.
    • Contrast: 爵/RANK Jué 爵 refers specifically to noble rank.
    • Assoc: 官/OFFICE The standard and very current general word for any elevated bureaucratic office, civil or military, is guān 官 (the original meaning of which refers to the building housing the office-holders office).
    • Assoc: 爵/RANK Jué 爵 refers specifically to noble rank.
    • Assoc: 賞/REWARD The current general word for rewarding is shǎng 賞 (ant. fá 罰 "punish" and zhū 誅 "punish").
    • Oppos: 德/VIRTUE The current general term for salient features and principles of charismatic moral integrity and generosity is dé 德, when used as a term of ethical evalutation; but this word has many other philosophically important meanings.
    • Oppos: 身/PERSON Shēn 身 regularly refers to the embodied person, as something to be cultivated, and as something to be morally careful about, but the word is originally widely used to refer to the physical body as such being at times hard to distinguish from the figurative use discussed in this group. The word is very often reflexive.
    • Oppos: 道/METHOD Dào 道 is a way of being, of functioning, as well as a way of doing things, and this Way may be either exoteric or esoteric.

      Syntactic words
    • nabsocialpower to award emoluments, power over official apanages
    • nadN(minister) with emoluments, salaried, enjoying the benefits of a formal salary; (N=place:) carrying emoluments
    • nmsalary, official stipend, public emoluments, public remuneration; salary levels
    • nmfigurativesalary
    • vichangeget to enjoy stable emoluments
    • vimiddle voiceenjoy stable emoluments
    • vtoNhave N as one's emolumentLZ
    • vtoNcausativecause to have stable official emoluments
    爵祿  jué lù OC: tsewɡ b-rooɡ MC: tsi̯ɐk luk 12 Attributions

      Syntactic words
    • NP(post-N)definiteemoluments of rank or salariesTWH
    • NPnonreferentialemoluments of rank or salaries of any kind
    • VPt(oN)confer ranks and salaries on a contextually determinate N
    • VPt[oN]confer salaries on people
    食  shí OC: ɢljɯɡ MC: ʑɨk 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nnonreferentiallivelihood; level of income, salary in general, on the basis of which one survives; living standards
    • viactdraw a salary
    穀  gǔ OC: kooɡ MC: kuk 3 Attributions

    Gǔ 穀 refers specifically to salary in the form of grain, which was the most current form of payment, and the word sometimes refers in a generalised way to salaries of any kind.

      Syntactic words
    • viputativeconsider one's salary as the important thing; be solely concerned with the grain one gets as a salary
    穀祿  gǔ lù MC: kuwk luwk OC: kooɡ b-rooɡ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPsalaryLZ
    奉  fèng OC: boŋʔ MC: bi̯oŋ
    奉俸  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 2 Attributions

    Fèng 奉 is a formal word for a salary gratefully received.

      Syntactic words
    • napanage, stipend
    養祿  yǎng lù OC: laŋʔ b-rooɡ MC: ji̯ɐŋ luk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPmstipend
    賞祿  shǎng lù OC: lʰaŋʔ b-rooɡ MC: ɕi̯ɐŋ luk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialrewards or emoluments of any kind
    入  rù OC: njub MC: ȵip 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nincome, provenue
    升斗  shēng dǒu OC: qhljɯŋ tooʔ MC: ɕɨŋ tu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPmeven the slightest income HANSHU