Taxonomy of meanings for 愈:
- 愈 yù (OC: loʔ MC: jio) 以主切 上 廣韻：【差也賢也勝也 】
- CURE
- vtoNcure
- vtoNmiddle voiceget better, get cured
- vtoNderived"cure" a state of need (like hunger etc)CH
- HAPPY
- vibe mildly happy; be amused; be happily at ease; feel contentment
- vtoNfind amusing
- vt+prep+Nfeel mildly happy with; feel happily at ease with
- vi.redintensitiveshow mild happiness
- nabpsychhappiness
- vtoNcausativecause to be amused
- vadNhappy
- vi.redbe all at ease and happy; be completely relaxed
- visubject=nonhumancausing happiness> be amusing, be profoundly pleasant
- INCREASE
- viprocessbecome more and more
- vadVincreasingly; more and more proficientlyCH
- MORE
- vadVever more; SHI: increasingly; more and more; all the more, even more; ZZ: the more... the more
- vt+prep+Nbe more intense than N
- vtoN.adVexceeding, more than, beyond (merits etc)
- vadV1.postadV2even more; increasinglyCH
- SUPERIOR
- vibe superior; be better
- vtoNrelationalbe superior in relation to
- vt+prep+Nstativebe better than N
- CURE
Additional information about 愈
說文解字:
- Criteria
- 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".
- CURE
1. The general-use current word for curing patients of illnesses is zhì/chí 治.
2. Chōu 瘳 refers to a cure taking effect, and this word is often used in nominalised ways.
3. The result of successful therapy is standardly yù 愈 / 瘉, yǐ 已.
4. Chú 除 refers to getting rid of the disease.
5. Gōng 攻 is the standard word describing an attempt at curing a disease.
6. Jiǔ 灸 is a specific ancient medical technique, that of cauterisation.
7. Tán 彈 is to prick open with a needle.
8. Zhēn 針 / 鍼 is needle therapy which is not necessarily to be identified with anything like acupuncture as we know it today.
9. Yī 醫 focusses on the professional aspect of medical treatment as depending on trained specialisation.