Taxonomy of meanings for 各:　　

  • 各 gè (OC: klaaɡ MC: kɑk) 古落切 入 廣韻：【説文云異詞也古落切五 】
    • ALL
      • npro.adNeach, every
      • npro.red+Vsubjectreduplicated: each and everyone; everyone
      • npro+V(.postN{TOP})reference=subjecteach (in his own way); each their separate (and typically different) object
      • npromathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
      • padN1:postvtt+N2.+N3in each case 賜民爵各一級 (so and so many, such and such items were vt-ed)
      • npro+V.postN{TOP}each (in his own way)LZ
      • npro.adVin each caseCH
      • npropluraleach of the subjects (each in their own manner); each and everyoneCH
      • npro+vtoNN=owneach his own NCH
      • npro＋Vto其Ncoreference of 其 with 各each Vt-s his own NCH

    Additional information about 各

    說文解字: 【各】，異辭也。从口、夂。夂者，有行而止之，不相聽也。 〔小徐本「也」作「意」。〕 【古洛切】

      Criteria
    • ROLE

      所 in 各有其所 comes close to meaning "role", "function in life".

    • ALL

      [ADNOMINAL/ADVERBIAL]

      [ARCHAIC/CURRENT]

      [COLLECTIVE/INDIVIDUAL]

      [[COMMON/RARE]]

      [OBJECT-BINDING/SUBJECT-BINDING]

      1. Jiē 皆 the most common and general colourless subject qunatifier which is also used, occasionally as an object quantifier.

      SUBJECT-BINDING!; [padV]

      2.Jìn 盡 is a universal object quantifier which indicates that the action the transitive verb it precedes applies to the whole lot of the objects of that verb indiscriminately.

      [OBJECT-BINDING!], [COLLECTIVE]; [vadVt]

      3. Gè 各 quantifies by emphasising the separate features of each item quantified over.

      [INDIVIDUAL], [SUBJECT-BINDING]; [n+Vt]

      4. Jiān 兼 is an object quantifier which says that the transitive verb it precedes applies to each of the objects in its own right.

      [OBJECT-BINDING], [INDIVIDUAL]; [vadVt]

      5. Qún 群 is a quantifier which indicates that the whole of the flock or group of items designated by the noun it precedes are referred to

      [COLLECTIVE]; [nadN]

      6. Zhū 諸 is an adjectival quantifier which indicates that the whole group of the things indicated by the noun it precedes is referred to.

      [COLLECTIVE]; [padN]

      7. Zhòng 眾 is an adnominal quantififier which says that the whole of the group of things designated by the noun it precedes are intended.

      [COLLECTIVE]; [nadN]

      8. Fán 凡 characterises a topic adnominally as forming the general subject or topic in a non-narrative statement of principle. The current gloss "in general" is misleading because it wrongly suggests that there are exceptions, and because it does not specify the non-narrative "theoretical" nature of the statements introduced by the word. "In principle" is much to be preferred.

      [SPECIFIC]; [vadN[TOPIC]]

      9. Jù 俱 / 具 is a collective subject quantifier which says that all the subjects are equally and together characterised by what is in the predicate.

      [SUBJECT-BINDING]; [vadV]

      10. Fàn 氾 quantifies generally over all objects of the verb it precedes.

      [COLLECTIVE], [OBJECT-BINDING]; [vadVt]

      11. Fàn 汎 says that a verb has a whole range of objects, indiscriminately, and without reference to their specific character.

      [COLLECTIVE], [OBJECT-BINDING]; [padVt]

      12. Měi 每 mostly adnominal and emphasises that a each and every new item quantified over is separately intended.

      [INDIVIDUAL]; [padN]

      13. Jūn 均 / 鈞 expresses universal quantification over all subjects equally, without any difference.

      [INDIVIDUAL], [SUBJECT-BINDING]; [vadN]

      14. Zhōu 周 is a rare object quantifier claiming that all the objects of a verb are intended, without exception.

      [COLLECTIVE], [OBJECT-BINDING]; [vadVt]

      15. Xī 悉 mass object qunatifier which says that the transitive verb it precedes applies to the whole of the objects indiscriminately.

      [COLLECTIVE], [OBJECT-BINDING]; [vadVt]

      16. Xián 咸 is an archaic subject quantifier which came to new life in Han times.

      [INDIVIDUAL], [SUBJECT-BINDING!]; [vadV]

      17. Bì 畢 a subject quantifier which says that the predicate applies to all subjects.

      [ADVERBIAL]; [SUBJECT-BINDING]; [RARE]

      18. Jǔ 舉 is an adjectival quantifier of limited idiomatic use indicating that all the things in a certain area are referred to.

      [ADNOMINAL]; [COLLECTIVE]

      19. Wú bù 無不 is a neutral subject and object quantifier.

      20. Mò bù 莫不 is a neutral subject quantifier.

      [PREVERBAL]; [SUBJECT-BINDING]

      21. Sì hǎi 四海 sometimes refers generally to all inhabitants of the inhabited world, like tiān xià 天下, and these are marginal in this group.

      [NOMINAL]; [COLLECTIVE]