DYNASTY    朝代朝／代

FAMILY LEGITIMATELY GOVERNS a STATE over MANY GENERATIONS, OR the PERIOD of such GOVERNMENT.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard term for a dynasty is dài 代, but this term is not used to refer to a person's contemporary dynasty in pre-Han times, and as far as I can see, it is rarely so used in Han times, although there is a clear example of Hàn dài 漢代 in HANSHU. Zhōu dài 周代 is not in the texts I have surveyed so far, whereas 周世 is in SHIJI.
Modern Chinese Criteria
朝代 is the general modern word for a dynasty. 王朝 focusses on its royal status. 朝 代 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • FAMILY　GROUP of PERSONS with the SAME ANCESTORS, OR WITH the SAME GRANDFATHER OR GREAT GRANDFATHER. (anc: 17/0, child: 1)
  • GROUP　CATEGORY of PEOPLE OR THINGS which COOPERATE, MUTUALLY RESEMBLE OR are TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE. (anc: 16/0, child: 19)
  • CATEGORY　ABSTRACT CONCEPT REFERRING TYPICALLY to MANY THINGS with RESEMBLING FEATURES. (anc: 15/0, child: 3)
  • 《說文段注》“渾言”“析言”在漢語詞義研究中的意義 "Shuowen Duan zhu" "hun yan" "xi yan" zai Hanyu ci yi yanjiu zhong de yiyi 杭州大學學報 Hangzhou daxue xuebao ( CHI CHANGHAI 1991) p. 162.6

  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 36

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 250ff

    • Words (5 items)

    三代  sān dài MC: sam dojH OC: saam lɯɯɡs 10 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPab[adN]N=period of timethe (idealised) Three Dynasties - Xia4, Shang1, and Zhou1(before the Annals Period beginning in 771 BC)LZ
    代  dài OC: lɯɯɡs MC: dəi 8 Attributions

    The standard term for a dynasty is dài 代, but this term is not used to a person's contemporary dynasty in pre-Han times, and as far as I can see, it is rarely so used in Han times, although there is a clear example of Hàn dài 漢代 in HANSHU. Zhōu dài 周代 is not in the texts I have surveyed so far.

      Syntactic words
    • nccdynasty 三代，五代，七代; HANSHU 漢代內史
    周  zhōu OC: tjɯw MC: tɕɨu 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabfigurative.socialthe nature of the Zhou, the ways of the ZhouCH
    • nprZhou DynastyDS
    世  shì OC: lʰebs MC: ɕiɛi 1 Attribution

    Shì 世 "generation; age" is sometimes used to refer to dynasty.

      Syntactic words
    • npost=Nprdynasty SHIJI: 周世
    朝  cháo OC: daw MC: ɖiɛu 0 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 家/FAMILY The current dominant word is jiā 家 which refers to a whole household, including men, domestic animals and utensils as well as the whole clan system that defines its lineage affiliation.
    • Contrast: 國/STATE The dominant word is guó 國, and the word naturally focusses on the capital which defines the identity of the state, but from Warring States times the word does refer to the whole of the territory, as the term guó xiāo 國削 "the state was truncated" shows.

      Syntactic words
    • nabsocialdynasty