OWE    欠債

SHOULD:to have an obligation to PAY someone MONEY.
BE IN DEBT TOBE INDEBTED TOBE IN ARREARS TOBE UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO
Modern Chinese Criteria
欠 欠債 欠帳 負債 背債 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
Hypernym
  • SHOULD　Be APPROPRIATE for a HUMAN to ACT:do something DEFINITE. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • APPROPRIATE　EXCELLENT in a DEFINED SITUATION OR FOR a DEFINED NEED. (anc: 5/0, child: 8)
  • EXCELLENT　FEATURE BECAUSE of which SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IS OR SHOULD BE PREFERRED to OTHERS (anc: 4/0, child: 11)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.63

    • Words (1 items)

    負  fù OC: bɯʔ MC: bɨu 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtt(oN1.)+N2owe something to N2
    • vttoN1(.+N2)owe the contextually determinate N2 to N1
    • vttoN1.+N2owe N2 to N1