Taxonomy of meanings for 尤:
- 尤 yóu (OC: ɢʷɯ MC: ɦiu) 羽求切 平 廣韻：【過也葚也怨也多也説文異也又姓出姓苑羽也切九 】
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BLAME
- nabactblame, official reproach; supernatural disapproval
- vt+prep+Nto blame, to hold morally guilty
- vtoNberate, to blame, to hold morally guilty See also GUILT
- CRIME
- nabactbehaviour that is to be condemned, morally unacceptable behaviour
- EXCELLENT
- vadNoutstanding
- vibe outstanding (in beauty etc)
- v[adN1.]post-N2the most outstanding of the N2CH
- GUILT
- nabactSHI 54: SHI 204 blameworthy points, faults; mistakes 亡尤
- MISTAKE
- nabactintellectual mistake
- nabpsychfaultsCH
- MORE
- vadVeven more, particularly
- vadVmore and moreCH
- STRANGE
- nsubjectoutstanding specimen, remarkable case
- vadNextraordinary, out of the ordinary; amazing
- SURPRISED
- vadNsurprising See STRANGE
- vtoNbe surprised at, find (something) extraordinary
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BLAME
- yóuSPECIAL
- padVespecially, particularlyCH
Additional information about 尤
說文解字: 【尤】，異也。从乙、又聲。 【徐鍇曰：乙欲出而見閡，見閡則顯其尤異也。】 【羽求切】
- Criteria
- BLAME
[ARCHAIC/CURRENT]
[DRAMATIC/UNDRAMATIC]
[ELEVATED/FAMILIAR]
[FACE-TO-FACE/NOT-FACE-TO-FACE]
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC]
[HIGH-DEGREE/LOW-DEGREE]
[PRIVATE/PUBLIC]
1. The current general word for declaring someone morally rather than criminally responsible for a misdeed is jiù 咎 (ant. yù 譽 "praise").
[ARCHAIC?], [NOT-FACE-TO-FACE!], [PRIVATE]
2. Shǔ 數 refers to the recounting and publicly recounting and listing up of the misdeeds or mistakes someone has made.
[FACE-TO-FACE], [HIGH-DEGREE]
3. Zé 責 (ant. chēng 稱 "praise someone for something") often refers to the public apportioning of blame without the threat of legal action. [see ACCUSE]
[FORMAL], [FACE-TO-FACE]
4. Ràng 讓 (ant. zàn 贊 "commend strongly, in public") refers to strong public blame and abuse.
[DRAMATIC], [FACE-TO-FACE], [PUBLIC],
5. Qiào 誚 refers to a strong and often abusive public reprimand.
[DRAMATIC], [FACE-TO-FACE], [FAMILIAR]; [[RARE]]
5. Yóu 尤 often refers to official blame and censure, but there are archaic generalised uses of the word where it simply means "to apportion blame for something".
[ARCHAIC+], [ELEVATED], [NOT-FACE-TO-FACE]
6. Jí 疾 (ant. měi 美 "praise the splendid qualities of someone") refers to strong personal stricture.
[DRAMATIC], [FACE-TO-FACE], [INFORMAL]
7. Guò 過 (ant. yù 譽 ) typically refers to a mild and/or subjective moral disagreement with someone. See MISTAKE
[LOW-DEGREE], [MARGINAL]
- CRIME
1. The current general word for a serious legal transgression is zuì 罪 (ant. gōng 功 "merit"), and the current general word for a minor legal transgression is guò 過 (ant. xiào 效 "positive contribution").
2. Yóu 尤 refers generally to morally disreputable behaviour.
3. Jiù 咎 (ant. láo 勞 "obtain merits") refers to an action for which one deserves blame.
4. Dào 盜 (ant.* dé 德 "virtue") refers to morally and legally outrageous behaviour.
5. Yuè 越 can come to refer to a failure to keep within the boundaries set by one's social status or office.
6. Gū 辜 (ant. xún 勛 "significant contribution") is an archaising word referring to serious crimes at an early stage, but later commonly used (mostly in negated form) to refer to any crime.
7. Tè 忒, qiān 愆, and shěng 眚 refer to a minor but culpable error.
8. Qiān 愆 refers to a minor mistake in procedure.
- GUILT
1. The dominant standard general word for any kind of guilt, large or small, is zuì 罪 (ant. gōng 功 "merit"), but this does not refer to any feelings of guilt; the general term for feelings of guilt is jiù 疚 REGRET.
2. Qiān 愆, (sometimes written qiān 騫 ) refers to slight guilt or responsibility for a mistake.
3. Yóu 尤 refers to the blame one suffers for a misdeed.
For zéi 賊, a dramatic derogatory term referring to abject villainy, see VILLAIN.
- MORE
1. The most current and general word expressing the idea of something becoming more rather than less is yì 益 (ant. sǔn 損 "less and less").
2. Mí 彌 focusses a difference in degree or number rather than on a process of increase.
3. Yù 愈 (NB: shǎo 少 does not function as an antonym "less and less".) typically refers to a continuous or continuing dynamic increase or process.
4. Gèng 更 and the rarer words fù 復 and yòu 又 "even more" indicate that the increase is from a level that is already high.
5. Jiā 加 typically refers to an increase not in the intensity of something, but in the quantity or number.
6. Yóu 尤 "particularly" singles out an item as instantiating something with particular intensity, more than most other comparable things.
NB: 愈 may precede non-comparative verbs. Thus yù qǐ 愈起 "tend even more to occur" GUAN 47 could not have yì qǐ 益起. HF 19 has yù wáng 愈亡 "will tend ever more to fail". 愈至 "tend even more to arrive".