Taxonomy of meanings for 昊:　　

Additional information about 昊

說文解字:

Criteria
• BIG
  

  [[COMMON/RARE]]

  [ELEVATED/FAMILIAR]

  [+FIG/LITERAL]

  [GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

  [HIGH-DEGREE/LOW-DEGREE]

  [HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL]

  1. The general word is dà 大 (ant. xiǎo 小 "small").

  [GENERAL]; [[COMMON]]

  2. Jù 巨 "huge" (ant. xì 細 "slight") indicates a higher degree of size.

  [HIGH-DEGREE+], [LITERAL], [VERTICAL]

  3. Kuí 魁 and páng 龐 (ant. wēi 微 "small and slight"), both rare, add to the notion of vertical size that of impressiveness.

  [+FIG], [HIGH-DEGREE], [VERTICAL]; [[RARE]]

  4. Hóng 洪 refers to the size of water masses, and the word is often used in metaphorical senses.

  [ELEVATED], [+FIG], [HORIZONTAL]

  5. Hào 昊 refers to the vastness of the sky, as a poetic elevated epithet (sometimes perhaps confused by scribes with 旻 ).

  [ARCHAIC], [ELEVATED], [+FIG], [HORIZONTAL]

  6. Jù 巨 "huge" (ant. xì 細 "slight") indicates a very high degree of size.

• BLACK
  

  [[COMMON/RARE]]

  [DRAMATIC/UNDRAMATIC]

  [ELEVATED/FAMILIAR]

  [+FIG/LITERAL]

  [GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

  [IDIOMATIC/NON-IDIOMATIC]

  [POETIC/PROSAIC]

  1.The standard word is hēi 黑 (ant. bái 白 "white") which refers to anything very dark.

  [GENERAL], [LITERAL], [PROSAIC]; [[COMMON]]

  2. Xuán 玄 (ant. sù 素 "pristine unadorned white") refers to a redish mystifying black. SW: 黑而有赤色者

  [ELEVATED], [+FIG], [POETIC!]

  3. Àn 黯 (ant. hào 昊 "shining bright (of sky)") is rare and poetic, and the word refers to the threatening darkness of clouds in a thunderstorm.

  [DRAMATIC], [ELEVATED], [LITERAL], [POETIC]; [[RARE]]

  4. Zī 淄／緇 (ant. sù 素 "plain white") refers to the glossy greyish black appearance of dark silk, like the colour of dark earth, and this word seems limited to the description of clothes.

  [ELEVATED], [LITERAL], [SPECIFIC]

  5. Dài 黛 (ant. hào 皓 "shining whie") refers specifically to the dust-glossy black of make-up.

  [ELEVATED], [LITERAL], [POETIC], [SPECIFIC]; [[RARE]]

  6. Lí 黎 / 黧 (ant. sù 素 "pristine white and un-suntanned") refers to the dark sunburnt complexion of those who work in the open for long periods.

  [IDIOMATIC], [LITERAL], [PROSAIC], [SPECIFIC]

  7. Qián 黔 refers to the dark sunburnt complexion of those who work in the open for long periods, especially in qián mín 黔民 "the common people".

  [IDIOMATIC], [LITERAL], [PROSAIC], [SPECIFIC]

  8. Méi 黴 refers to the facial complexion darkened either by exposure to the sun or by sorrow.

  [ELEVATED], [+FIG], [IDIOMATIC], [POETIC!]; [[RARE]]

  9. Zào 皂 (sù 素 "plain undyed white") is also very rare and refers to the appearance of coarse dyed black non-silken textiles, the original reference of the word being to the plant used to produce the black effect.

  [LITERAL], [PROSAIC]

  10. Mò 墨 is basically ink, and by extension the word can come to refer to a dark black colour.

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