Taxonomy of meanings for 恆 / 恒:　　

  • 恆 héng (OC: ɡɯɯŋ MC: ɦəŋ) 胡登切 平 廣韻：【常也久也亦州名春秋時鮮虞國地漢爲恒山郡周武帝置恒州因山以爲名爾雅曰恒山爲北嶽又姓楚有大夫恒思公胡登切三 】
    • ENDURING
        • recurrent>ORDINARY
          • vadVstandardly, normally, as a rule
          • vadNordinary
          • social>COMMON
              • practice>CUSTOM
                  • feature:CONSTANT
                    • feature: generalised>ALWAYS
                      • vadVall the time; constantly, regularly; continuously; constantly and at regular intervals
                      • vadNZUO Zhuang 7: permanent (as a star); LY: a constant bent of mind
                      • nabmethodconstant standard, constancy
                      • vtoNcausativecause to be constant and stable
                      • grammaticalised>PAST
                        • psychologically>STABLE
                            • elliptic: (constant) explicit>LAW
                  • MOUNTAINS
                    • SURNAMES
                      • MALES OF QI
                      • 恆 ｇｅｎｇ４《集韻》居鄧切，去嶝見。蒸部。

                        Additional information about 恆

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                        • CHANGE

                          1. The most current general words for objective and typically abrupt change are biàn 變 "change FROM one's original state to become something different" (ant. héng 恆 "remain constant").

                          2. Huà 化 (ant. cháng 常 "remain constant") refers to irreversible change INTO a fundamentally new state, while retaining one's identity".

                          3. Gǎi 改 refers to a deliberate change brought about at a certain point in time, typically in order to improve a situation. See IMPROVE

                          4. Gēng 更 is an act of deliberately changing something, typically by replacing it by an improved version of the same kind of thing in order to insure continuity.

                          5. Gé 革 (ant. yīn 因 "continue the tradition") refers to a typically unlicenced act of replacing the old by something new.

                          6. Yì 易 refers prototypically to a change construed as brought about by a process of interchange and (often mutual) replacement.

                          7. Dòng 動 refers to change construed as the moving from a previous stable state.

                          8. Xǐ 徙 refers to making the object moved unstable.

                          9. Yí 移 refers to a change in a current situation so as to effect a certain development in a desired direction.

                          10. Yú 渝 is to change a current situation or an object, generally to the worse, and the word is remarkably often negated.

                          11. Qiān 遷 (ant. 滯 "stay put in one place, unable to move") refers typically to change of one's current condition brought about by oneself.

                          12. Fǎn 反 refers to a change resulting in the reverting to one's original state. See RETURN vt.fig

                          13. Zhuǎn 轉 refers to change typically construed as part of a cycle of changes.

                        • ENDURING

                          1. The general word for something which is constant and lasting in time is jiǔ 久 (ant. qǐng 頃 "for a short time"), which can refer to bounded or unbounded and open-ended persistence in time.

                          2. Cháng 長 (ant. duǎn 短 "of short duration") expresses bounded enduringness with a definite final point being typically imagined, although in cháng shēng 長生 the word refers to an unending long life.

                          3. Cháng 常 and the especially emphatic héng 恆 "highly constant and permanent" (ant.* ǒu 偶 "contingency and consequent changeability") emphasise the constancy or constant recurrence of the attributes of what is lasting, and typically - though not always - the constancy is valued positively.

                          4. Bì 必 refers to something being an invariable event that always tends to occur.

                          5. Shí 時 "recurrently, constantly" allows for something being present or having certain attributes intermittently but over a long stretch of time.

                          6. Yóng 永 "last for a while" (ant. zàn 暫 "temporary" post-Buddhist, Six Dynasties: temporarily) is an elevated and poetic word often referring to subjectively experienced long duration.

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