Taxonomy of meanings for 遁:　　

  • 遁 dùn (OC: ɡ-luuns MC: duon) 徒困切 去 廣韻：【逃也隱也去也 】
    • AVOID
      • vtoNpassivebe avoided by hiding from it
    • CONCEAL
      • vt(oN)hide away from a contextually determinate person
      • vtoNhide from; ZUO ZZ 28: abscond secretly, disappear (during the night)
    • FLEE
      • nabactflight; hasty escape
      • v[adN]fugitive
      • vadNevasive, escapist
      • vt(oN)flee and hide; retreat from a contextually determinate duty
      • vt+prep+Nflee to
      • vtoNflee and hide from
      • vt(oN)hide from the contextually determinate N, keep ways fromCH
    • UNRESTRAINED
      • vt+prep+Nactabandon oneself to, indulge in
    • MOVE
      • CHEAT
        • LOOSE
          • = 遯
        • 遁 dùn (OC: ɡ-luunʔ MC: duon) 徒損切 上 廣韻：【遁逃又音鈍 】

          Additional information about 遁

          說文解字: 【遁】，遷也。一曰：逃也。从辵、盾聲。 【徒困切】 〔小徐本此字次於「𨘢(邊)」字之後。〕

            Criteria
          • FLEE

            1. The current general word for illicit disappearance from where one has some obligation to remain is zǒu 走.

            2. Táo 逃 refers to an attempted or successful escape to a place, or from any difficult predicament (for which see AVOID), occasionally also from a person or group of persons. Thus to 逃 a state is to flee TO a state, to 逃 a predicament is to flee FROM a predicament, and to 逃 a person is to flee FROM that person.

            3. Bèi 北 is to flee during a battle engagement.

            4. Bēn 奔 is refers to absconding from a place at high speed.

            5. Dùn 遁 is to get away by simply going into hiding rather than by seeking refuge in a certain alternative place.

            6. Wáng 亡 and the much rarer sàng 喪 often refers to a dignified almost public way of leaving one place for another, especially to going into exile in order to escape danger.

            7. Yì 逸 / 佚 is to seek and find freedom through fleeing from an oppressive situation.

            8. Cuàn 竄 is primarily to sneak away, availing oneself of a narrow "window of opportunity", and going into hiding after the flight.

            NB: There is a striking number of binomes expressing flight. These need to be analysed in detail to determine their semantic nuances.

            Word relations
          • Assoc: (FLEE)逃/FLEE Táo 逃 refers to an attempted or successful escape to a place, or from any difficult predicament (for which see AVOID), occasionally also from a person or group of persons. Thus to 逃 a state is to flee TO a state, to 逃 a predicament is to flee FROM a predicament, and to 逃 a person is to flee FROM that person.