NEW    新新

EXIST AND have BEGUN to EXIST RECENTLY.
NOVELORIGINALFRESHIMAGINATIVECREATIVEEXPERIMENTALCONTEMPORARYMODERNISTUP TO DATENEWFANGLEDULTRAMODERNAVANT-GARDEFUTURISTICRECENTLY DEVELOPEDUP TO DATELATESTCURRENTSTATE-OF-THE-ARTCONTEMPORARYADVANCEDRECENTMODERNCUTTING-EDGELEADING-EDGE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for something newly invented is xīn 新 (ant. 舊 ) which generally tends to have negative connotations in cultural contexts but takes on positive connotations when referring to articles of daily use etc..
Modern Chinese Criteria
新 新鮮 鮮 清新 新任的 最近的 刷新的 嶄新 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • MODERN　NEW and LIKED OR ACTED:practised by the NOW:present MAJORITY in a SOCIETY. (anc: 8/0, child: 1)
Antonym
  • OLDOf BIG AGE OR having EXISTED for an ENDURING PERIOD.
Hypernym
  • EXIST　BE-IN the UNIVERSE of SPACE AND TIME. (anc: 6/0, child: 5)
  • BE IN　RELATION between a THING AND what that THING FILLS OR PART:partially FILLS. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
  • RELATION　FEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER. (anc: 4/0, child: 15)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.13

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    NEW

    novus refers to anything that is new, as that which did not exist in former times.

    recens refers to anything that is new, as that which has not long been in existence.

    novicius refers to someone who is new to something, as a novice who must accustom himself before he is qualified for something.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 123

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    NOVITAS

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 296

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 6.726

    NEU

  • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 95

  • Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 3.11-78

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.341.304

    NEUF.NOUVEAU.RECENT

  • Logicheskii analiz yazyka ( ARYUTUNOVA 2002) p. 56ff

    • Words (4 items)

    新  xīn OC: siŋ MC: sin 95 Attributions

    The current word for something newly invented is xīn 新 (ant. 舊) which generally tends to have negative connotations in cultural contexts but takes on positive connotations when referring to articles of daily use etc..

      Word relations
    • Ant: 故/OLD Gù 故 (ant. xīn 新) refers to what is a matter of the past which typically has an impact on, or traces in, the present.
    • Ant: 故/PAST Gù 故 tends to be used adjectivally to characterise something as being former rather than present, and the meaning is very neatly distinct from gǔ 古 which would characterise something as being old.
    • Ant: 敝/TATTERED
    • Ant: 陳/OLD Chén 陳 (ant. xīn 新) refers to what is stale and no longer new and fresh.
    • Ant: 舊/OLD The general term for old age of living creatures is lǎo 老 "of old age" (ant. shào 少 "still youthful" and yòu 幼 "young"), whereas the general term for things not new is jiù 舊 (ant. xīn 新 "new").
    • Ant: 弊/TATTERED

      Syntactic words
    • nsubj=nonhumanwhat is new; the new ones; new stuff
    • v[adN]pluraloccasionally used nominally: the new ones (compare also DISTANT) SHU 器非求舊，惟新
    • vad.VadNnew
    • vadNnew; unused; newly established (ruler)
    • vadNfigurativenew in kind
    • vadNnegativenewfangled, new; newly introduced; fresh, unaccustomed
    • vadNpositivenew and fashionable; new and neat; newly come into existence (not: new in kind); OBI: newly built (For 新邑 compare "Newcastle" [sorry!])
    • vadVas a new measure; as a new instance, as a fresh experience; anew, afresh 新相知
    • vichangebe renewed 日新 find new ways
    • vistativebe new (to the job etc.)
    • vtoNcausativerenew, make new (i.e. redo what existed before, NOT: create something new)
    • vtoNcausativerenew (oneself)
    未曾有  wèi zēng yǒu OC: mɯds tsɯɯŋ ɢʷɯʔ MC: mɨi tsəŋ ɦɨu 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP[adN]BUDDH: something new; French: inédit
    • VPadNunprecedented
    惟新  wéi xīn MC: ywij sin OC: k-lul siŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNHYDCD 1: renew> confirmCH
    未聞  wèi wén OC: mɯds mɯn MC: mɨi mi̯un 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNunheard of earlier