Taxonomy of meanings for 衷:　　

Additional information about 衷

說文解字: 【衷】，裏褻衣。从衣、中聲。《春秋傳》曰：皆衷其衵服。 〔小徐本無「皆」。〕 【陟弓切】

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• UNDERWEAR
  

  1. Xiè 褻 is the most current general word for underwear, but not that the word can also come to mean "informal wear".

  2. Páo 袍 refers to underwear in pre-Qin times, but this term includes what is worn above underwear but underneath the mean visible outside garment.

  3. Rì 衵 is a rare word which refers to underwear, typically women's underwear. See WOMAN UNDERWEAR

  4. Zhōng 衷 is currently used verbally to refer to the wearing of something underneath something else, and whereas the word is currently said to mean "underwear" in the dictionaries, we have yet to discover any evidence for this nominal usage.

  5. Duó 襗 is a very rare word referring to garments worn above underwear but underneath the main visible outside garment.

• MORALITY
  

  衷 could perhaps just as well be classed under EARNEST. The notions of morality and earnestness are closely related. This needs further study.

• GOOD
  

  1. The general term for positive appraisal of human capacities of any kind is shàn 善 (ant. è 惡 "bad").

  2. Rén 仁 (ant. cán 殘 "unfeeling") refers to kind-heartedness as an attitude directed towards moral behaviour. See BENEVOLENCE

  3. Lián 廉 (ant. tān 貪 "greedy for bribery gifts") refers to moral probity and impeccability.

  4. Zhí 直 (ant. qǔ 曲 "devious") refers to moral straightforwardness and uprightness.

  5. Zhōng 衷 (ant. xié 邪 "wicked") refers to devoted uprightness of character. See also EARNEST

  6. Qīng 清 (ant. zhuó 濁 "defiled and corrupt") can be used to refer to moral purity.

  7. Shú 淑 is a highly poetic word referring to admirable moral qualities in general, typically in women.

  8. Jūn zǐ 君子 (ant. xiǎo rén 小人 "petty man") refers to high moral qualities and capacities, especially in men.

  <div>9. Zāng 臧 (pí 否 "good-for-nothing") is an archaic neutral unemotional objective term for goodness.</div><div><br></div><div>10. Rén yì 仁義, when it is not simply listing benevolence and righteousness, commonly refers quite generally (by synecdoche) to moral goodness or the moral virtues LIKE benevolence and righteousness and not in fact to just two of the virtues.<br></div><br>

• EARNEST
  

  1. The current standard word for earnestness in attitude and earnest effort in practice is chéng 誠 (ant.* màn 慢 "negligent").

  2. Dǔ 篤 refers to trusty earnestness under the special aspect of dependability.

  3. Liàng 諒 refers to sincerity of attitude as a moral virtue.

  4. Zhōng 衷 refers to earnestness as an inner attitude under the aspect of emotional genuineness, a moral earnestness which will move Heaven.

• WEAR
  

  1. The current general word for wearing clothes or putting on clothes of any kind is yì 衣 (ant. tuō 脫 "take off").

  2. Fú 服 (ant. xiè 卸 "take off") refers to dressing up for an official occasion.

  3. Bèi 被 refers to putting on or wearing outer clothing of any kind, especially cloak-like garments.

  4. Zhōng 衷 and zhōng 中 refer to wearing as underwear.

  5. Biǎo 表 refers to wearing as outer visible clothes.

  6. Dài 戴 refers to wearing something on one's head.

  7. Lu# 履 refers to wearing something on one's feet.