Taxonomy of meanings for 果:　　

  • 果 guǒ (OC: kloolʔ MC: kuɑ) 古火切 上 廣韻：【果敢又勝也定也剋也亦木實爾雅曰果不熟爲荒俗作菓古火切十一 】
    • FRUIT
      • nccfruit growing on a tree
      • npost-Nfigurativeabstract fruits> positive results of N
      • nadNfruit-DS
      • feature: attractive>SAVOUR
        • feature: abstract>COMPLETE
          • vichangecome to fruition 未果
          • vtoNbring to completion
        • source of>TREE
          • figurative>RESULT
            • nabeventual result, actual result; desired result
            • nabmetaphysicalBUDDH: karmic effect, karmic output
            • viprocessbear fruit, lead to the desired results
            • abstract: final situation>END
              • nadVfinally, effectively in the end; in the last resortCH
            • metaphysical,grammaticalised: in the end, really>REALITY
              • nab.adVas a fruit> eventually; in the event, as predicted, as one suspected, really, indeed; as it happened
              • nab.adVindeed; ultimately; in realityCH
              • subjective, cognitive>CERTAIN
                • nadVdefinitely
                • psychological: in attitude>COURAGE
                  • vibe utterly determined to live up to one's aspirations or intentions; be full of determination
                  • viactbe excessively determined to go through with one's plans LY 毋果
                  • nabactdecisive courage
        • =婐 (female)SERVANT
        • 果 ｌｕｏ３《集韻》魯果切，上果來。歌部。
          • =裸 臝
        • guǒSUCCEED
          • vi"bear fruit", be efficiently successful as intendedCH

        Additional information about 果

        說文解字: 【果】，木實也。从木，象果形在木之上。 【古火切】

          Criteria
        • COINCIDENCE

          1. The current general word for contingency is shì 適 (ant. bì 必 "necessarily").

          2. Huì 會 is an historian's technical term for coincidence which became current in Han times, and the word is adsentential.

          3. O ㄆ偶 (ant. bì 必 "necessarily") is a rather rare word specifically focussing on the arbitary contingency of something happening.

          4. Guǒ 果 "in the event" focusses on the fact that something that might not have happened but was expected to happen, did in fact happen.

          5. Zú 卒 and jìng 竟 focus on something happening in the end that might never have happened at all.

        • BASIS

          [ABSTRACT/CONCRETE]

          [[COMMON/RARE]]

          [DYNAMIC/STATIC]

          [GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

          1. The basic word is běn 本 "the trunk, the main part" (ant. mò 末 "marginal part") and this word refers to the crucial constituent of something in any sense.

          [GENERAL], [STATIC]; [[COMMON]]

          2. Duān 端 "beginning" (ant. mò 末 "marginal part") is current in the meaning "initial crucial element, initiating fundamental property", and this is a very philosophial subtle word which conceives of what is crucial as dynamically affecting the rest.

          [ABSTRACT], [DYNAMIC]

          3. Gēn 根 "the root from which things spring" (ant. miǎo 杪 "small twig") is often used together with běn 本, but can also by itself be used in metaphorical senses, but the word is much rarer than běn 本 in this meaning.

          [STATIC]

          4. Jī 基 is sometimes used in a literal sense of "foundation on which something rests", but the word is common in figurative senses as in "the solid foundations of the state".

          [CONCRETE], [STATIC]

          5. Zōng 宗 is ethereal and always abstract, sometimes even purely semantic in meaning.

          [ABSTRACT], [STATIC]; [[RARE]]

          6. Yīn 因 (ant. guǒ 果 "result") is causal in meaning and emphasises the dynamic causal link between the yīn 因 and whatever is based on it.

          [GENERAL], [DYNAMIC]

        • COURAGE

          1. The standard general word for courage is yǒng 勇 (ant. nuò 懦 "pusillanimousness, chicken-liveredness"), which refers to positive boldness evinced in the face of danger or risk. Cf. fortitudo

          2. Hàn 悍 (ant. qiè 怯 "fearfulness") is foolhardiness and recklessness under conditions of danger or risk. Cf. Latin ferocia

          3. Gǎn 敢 (ant. qiè 怯 "fearfulness") is the ability of an individual to take considered reasonable risks where appropriate or where required by ritual propriety.

          4. Guǒ 果 and duàn 斷 (ant. xū1 需 "hestant") is general resoluteness as an attitude towards the conduct of one's affairs. Cf. Latin audacia

          5. Zhì 志 "morale, fighting spirit" and the rarer wǔ 武 is the courageous warlike attitude of a whole group. Cf. Latin acrimonia, animus

          6. Qì 氣 "morale, fighting spirit" is typically the morale of an individual but can also occasionally be used of groups. Cf. Latin spiritus

        • HESITATE

          1. The current general word for psychological hesitation happens to be bisyllabic: yóuyù 猶豫 (compare the rare but synonymous yíyóu 夷猶 ) (ant. guǒ 果 "resolute"), but the word primarily refers to the mental state which brings about hesitation in action, but the diffident behaviour is also included in the meaning of the word.

          2. Chóu chú 躊躇 refers to the physical result of an attitude of hesitation, the lingering in one place, and the indecisiveness of movement, and these forms of action are clearly construed as expressive of the psychological hesitation.

          3. Pái huái 徘徊, pánghuáng 彷徨, zhízhú 躑躅, refers primarily to the action of going back and forth, as if in doubt, but the words can occasionally be used, by extension, to refer to the doubt or hesitation itself.

          4. Yí 疑 and the much rarer chǐ huí 祗迴 refers primarily to the intellectual aspect of hesitation.

          5. Xū 需 refers to hesitation as a permanent characteristic of a person.

          6. Rèn 訒 (ant. nìng 佞 "quick-witted eloquence") refers to reticent hesitation in the articulation of what is on one's mind.

        • FRUIT

          1. The dominant common general word for edible fruit, typically as viewed from the consumer's point of view, is guǒ 果.

          2. The dominant common general word for the fruit viewed from a biological point of view is shí 實.

          Word relations
        • Assoc: (COURAGE)敢/COURAGE Gǎn 敢 (ant. qiè 怯 "fearfulness") is the ability of an individual to take considered reasonable risks where appropriate in civil life or where required by ritual propriety.