Taxonomy of meanings for 傾:　　

  • 傾 qīng (OC: khʷleŋ MC: kʰʷiɛŋ) 去營切 平 廣韻：【側也伏也敧也去營切二 】
    • SLANT
      • viactslant to one side
      • vtoNcausativecause to be slanted, cause to be lowered on one side
      • vadNslanting; sidewise open
      • vt[oN]slant one's head to one sideCH
      • vtoNfigurativedeflect, divert from one's way of doing thingsLZ
      • result> POUR
        • vtoNpour forth; pour out in a jumbleCH
        • into vessel> FILL
          • vtoNpour full (with water)????
        • completely> EXHAUST
            • result: complete one's life> DIE
              • grammaticalised> ALL
              • figurative: pour out one's feelings/thoughts> COMMUNICATE
              • result> OVERTURN
                • nabactoverturning of a state or of a clan
                • vtoNoverturn, cause to fall down (a physical object)
                • vt(oN)figurativeslant or overturn the mind of a contextually determinate NLZ
                • vt[oN]tend to subvert others, be subversiveLZ
                • vtoNpassivebe overturned, be divertedLZ
                • generalised> COLLAPSE
                  • vichangetilt to one side and fall
                  • vtoNcausativeoverturn
                  • viderivedlose force, cease to be operativeCH
                • passive: military> DEFEAT
                  • nabeventnominal: the overturn/ruin
                  • vtoNtopple, overturn (a state)
                  • vtoNpassivebe defeated; totter
              • abstract> PARTIAL
                • vtoNincline to N, be inclined to N, be partial to NLZ
              • figurative, precarious> DANGER
              • RULERS OF LU

                Additional information about 傾

                說文解字: 【傾】，仄也。从人、从頃，頃亦聲。 【去營切】

                  Criteria
                • FLAT

                  1. The general word for flatness of any kind is píng 平 (ant. qīng 傾 "slanted downwards on one side" and perhaps xié 斜 "sloping") and it refers to anything which is horizontal and lacks inclination.

                  2. Yí 夷 (ant. xiǎn 險 "precarious or difficult of access (of terrain)" and yì 易 mostly refers to terrain and its accessibility through lack of geographical impediments.

                  3. Tǎn 坦 (dǒu 陡 "steep") has no special pragmatic connotations and simply refers to the objective property of a an area without noticeable elevations.

                • DEFEAT

                  1. The current general word for defeating someoneor some state in any form of battle is bài 敗.

                  2. Pò 破 (ant. quán 全 "leave intact") refers to a complete routing of an opponent.

                  3. Jìn 盡 refers to the complete annihilation of an opponent.

                  4. Fù 覆 refers to the inflicting of a major defeat with lasting effects on an army.

                  5. Qīng 傾 refers to the toppling of a system of government.

                  6. Wáng 亡 (ant. cún 存 "allow to survive") refers specifically to causing the discontinuation of a state.

                  7. Cuò 挫 refers specifically to inflicting a military defeat on an army.

                  8. Bài jī 敗績 refers to a major military defeat.

                  9. Fù 負 occasionally refers to a defeat suffered, but usually in the combination shèng fù 勝負, and as a verb it does not take objects or complements. See FAIL

                • SLANT

                  1. Probably the most current general word referring to tilting to one side is qǐng 傾 (ant. zhèng 正 "straight and level") which can freely refer to tilted bottles, geological formations etc.

                  2. Piān 偏 "onesided" (ant. zhèng 正 "straight and level") typically refers to abstract imbalance.

                  3. Xié 斜 (ant. zhèng 正 "straight and level") refers to any concrete object or movement being neither upright nor horizontal, and the word is first attested in HUANGDINEIJING.

                  4. Zè 仄 (ant. píng 平 "level") refers specifically to the sun being in a less than perpendicular position vis-a-vis the observer.

                  5. Dǒu 陡 (ant. píng 平 "level") refers specifically to the slanted nature of terrain.

                • COLLAPSE

                  1. The current words for the collapse of buildings is qǐng 傾 and huī 隳.

                  2. For the collapse of standing objects it is diān 顛.

                  3. For the collapse of mountains we have bēng 崩 and tuí 頹.

                  4. Dǎo 倒 is often used causatively to mean "make topple over".

                  5. Pū 仆 refers to things falling from a vertical position so as to take up a horisontal position.

                  6. Bì 斃 refers to some person or some animal collapsing suddenly, often to die.

                  Word relations
                • Object: (OVERTURN)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.