AFTERNOON    下午

PERIOD LATE IN-RELATION-TO MID-DAY AND BEFORE EVENING. 
Old Chinese Criteria
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC] 1. The general term for the afternoon, already attested in OBI, is zè 昃. [GENERAL] 2. Bū 晡 refers to the time of the afternoon meal bū 餔, and is a rare word that is first current in HANSHU. [SPECIFIC] 3. Hūn 昏 refers to the time when dusk has set in properly, but before it is dark, i.e. "dusk". [SPECIFIC]
Modern Chinese Criteria
下午 午後 下半天 後半天 下半晌 後半晌 後晌 過晌 晚半天兒 晚半晌 日仄 (obs) 日側 (lit) first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL. 18.11.2003. CH/
Antonym
  • MORNINGPERIOD BEFORE AND AFTER SUNRISE, BEFORE MIDDAY.
    Hypernym
    • PERIOD　TIME CONSISTING of a LIMITED SEQUENCE of MOMENTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 20)
    • TIME　ABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN. (anc: 3/0, child: 11)
    • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 314

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 4

    • Words (5 items)

    昏  hūn OC: hmuun MC: huo̝n 11 Attributions

    Hūn 昏 refers to the time when dusk has set in properly. [SPECIFIC]

      Syntactic words
    • nabdusk; nightfall
    • nadSat dusk
    • nadVCH
    昃  zè OC: tsrɯɡ MC: ʈʂɨk 1 Attribution

    The general term for the afternoon, already attested in OBI, is zè 昃. [GENERAL]

      Syntactic words
    • nOBI: afternoon
    • nadSin the afternoon
    兮  xī OC: ɢee MC: ɦei 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadSIn the early afternoon
    晡  bū OC: paa MC: puo̝ 0 Attributions

    Bū 晡 refers to the time of the afternoon meal bū 餔, and is a rare word that is first current in HANSHU. [SPECIFIC]

      Syntactic words
    • nHN, HANSHU 神女賦: latter part of the afternoon, 3-5 o'clock 晡時
    曛  xūn OC: qhun MC: hi̯un 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nadSrare, WENXUAN: at dusk