Taxonomy of meanings for 給:　　

  • 給 jǐ (OC: krub MC: kɯip) 居立切 入 廣韻：【供給又姓出姓苑 】
    • PROVIDE
      • vtoNprovide sufficient supplies for; provide a sufficiency of
      • vtoNmiddle voicebe sufficiently supplied
    • SUFFICIENT
      • nabstativestate of sufficient supplies
      • vibe in sufficient supply; have sufficient supplies
      • vtoNhave sufficient supplies of
      • vttoN1.+N2reflexive.自supply (oneself) with a sufficiency of N2
    • SERVE
      • OFFICE
        • REACH
          • GIVE
            • QUICK
              • SURNAMES
              • 給 gěi

                Additional information about 給

                說文解字: 【給】，相足也。从糸、合聲。 【居立切】

                  Criteria
                • POOR

                  1. The current general word for poverty is pín 貧 (ant. fù 富 "rich"), but the term does not in general refer to transitory poverty.

                  2. Qióng 窮 (ant. fù 富 "rich") refers to an extreme state of destitution, which may, however, be transitory, and the word may also refer not so much to poverty as such as marked lack of expected success, professional failure (ant. dá 達 ); and the word may also refer to persons without regular means of support such as widows and orphans.

                  3. Fá 乏 (ant. yù 裕 "abundantly supplied") refers to a shortage in a certain commodity or in a certain specified group of commodities.

                  4. Kùn 困 (ant.* kuān 寬 "in comfortable economic circumstances") refers to poverty as constituting serious hardship.

                  5. Yuē 約 (ant. chuò 綽 "be abundantly supplied") refers to mild poverty or straightened circumstances.

                  6. Jué 絕 refers to temporary poverty viewed as the result of a sudden change of circumstances.

                  7. Jié 竭 refers a state of extremely low supply that has come about through a gradual change in circumstances.

                  8. Jiǒng 窘 (ant. jǐ 給 "be sufficiently supplied") is a rare word referring to a general state of run-down destitution.

                • SUFFICIENT

                  1. The current general word for sufficiency is zú 足 (ant. fá 乏 "be short of something").

                  2. Jí 給 (ant.* quē 缺 "be short of") refers specifically to the supply of necessities for the sustenance of life.

                  3. Shàn 贍 refers to an abundant sufficiency of what is needed for a contextually determined purpose.

                • PROVIDE

                  1. The current general word for preparing something or supplying something in good time is bèi 備, and what is thus supplied is typically part of some larger scheme.

                  2. Jù 具 refers to providing something or assuring supplies of something without much emphasis on what these things are to be used for in concrete terms.

                  3. Jǐ 給 focusses on insuring a sufficiency of supply of some basic necessity.

                  4. Wán 完 refers to the complete preparation of something without omission.

                  Word relations
                • Assoc: (SUFFICIENT)足/SUFFICIENT The current general word for sufficiency is zú 足 (ant. fá 乏 "be short of something").
                • Synon: (SUFFICIENT)足/SUFFICIENT The current general word for sufficiency is zú 足 (ant. fá 乏 "be short of something").