LIFE
PERIOD DURING WHICH ONE LIVES
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
Words (4 items)
生 shēng OC: sraaŋ MC: ʂɣaŋ 21 Attributions
- Word relations
- Result: 知/UNDERSTAND
The standard current and word for understanding something and knowing how to do something is zhī 知 (ant. mèi 昧 "not have the foggiest idea") - Object: 學/STUDY
The dominant word is xué 學 (ant. jiào 教 "train teach")which refers primarily to studying or training under another person, and secondarily to the learning by heart texts. Very often, the word retains a tinge of immitation.
- Syntactic words
- nab(quality of, kind of) lifeCH
- nab(.post-N)reflexivethe life of the contextually determinate NCH
- nab(post-N)time(nab.post-N) lifespan of the contextually determinate N
- nab.post-NN's lifeDS
- nab[post-N]one's lifeDS
- nab[post-N]reflexiveone's own lifeCH
壽 shòu MC: dzyuwX OC: djuʔ 4 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nablife-spanCH
生而 shēng ér MC: sraeng nyi OC: sraaŋ njɯ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPadVsince birth until now, in one's whole lifeLZ
Click here to add pinyin MC: OC: 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nablife-spanCH