Taxonomy of meanings for 畔:　　

  • 畔 pàn (OC: baans MC: bʷɑn) 薄半切 去 廣韻：【田界也 】
    • FIELD BOUNDARY
      • nborder between whole fields consisting of many patches
      • generalised>BOUNDARY
          • related action>AVOID
            • furniture marking.SCREEN
            • abstract>SIDE
              • nside (of a building, etc.)
              • of rivers>SHORE
                • nshore (of a swamp or swampy area)
        • =叛REVOLT
          • vt[oN]engage in political revolt against the authorities, engage in revolutionary activities against the authorities
          • vtoNrevolt (against somebody); turn (against somebody)
          • vt(oN)revolt against the contextually determinate NCH

        Additional information about 畔

        說文解字: 【畔】，田界也。从田、半聲。 【薄半切】

          Criteria
        • FIELD BOUNDARY

          1. The most current general term, at least from Han times onwards, is qiān mò 阡陌. This term is mostly used generically or in the plural. Occasionally the word is also used to refer to the area surrounded by qiān mò 阡陌. Qiān 阡 is rarely used on its own.

          2. Quǎn 畎／甽 are little canals of water between fields, for drainage.

          3. Mò 陌 can refer on its own to mudpaths between fields.

          4. Pàn 畔 refers to the borderline between whole fields crossed individually by qiān mò 阡陌.

        • INSIDE

          1. The current general word for the inside of three-dimensional objects as opposed to what is outside them is nèi 內 (ant. wài 外 ), but this word is sometimes used to refer quite generally to the insides territories and the like. There are no degrees of neì 內 : things are either inside or outside.

          2. Zhōng 中 (ant. e.g. pàn 畔 "the margins"(!) cf. 江中 versus 江畔 ) typically refers to the centre of a domain and contrasts with the margins or what lies just outside that domain. There are degrees of zhōng 中 : some things may be more central, closer to the core, than others. Note that 中國 does not contrast with 外國 but with ZHOULI 遠國 or occasionally jué guó 絕國. Ancient China did not recognise foreign "states".

          3. Lǐ 裡 (ant. biǎo 表 ) is rare and refers in a rather abstract way to what is inward rather than mereley outward.

          4. Yāng 央 is only occasionally used to refer to the centre and is most current in the ubiquitous combination 中央 "central; the centre".

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