Taxonomy of meanings for 邇:
- 邇 ěr (OC: mljelʔ MC: ȵiɛ) 兒氏切 上 廣韻：【近也 】
- 邇 ěr (OC: njelʔ MC: ȵiɛ) 兒氏切 上 廣韻：【同邇 】
Additional information about 邇
說文解字: 【邇】，近也。从辵、爾聲。 【兒氏切】 【𨒛(迩)】，古文邇。
- Criteria
- NEAR
1. The dominant general word is jìn 近 (ant. yuǎn 遠 "far") which refers to any concrete or abstract proximity in space, time or quality.
2. Jī 幾 typically refers to an abstract closeness or relatedness with relates neither to space nor to time.
3. Pò 迫 and "precariously close" refer to spatial proximity of a potentially dangerous kind.
4. Bó 薄 "very close" refers to spatial proximity primarily but is occasionally used in transferred metaphorical senses to refer to abstract proximity.
5. Lín 鄰 is permanent geographical proxity.
6. Eψ 邇 is an archaic and elevated general term for closeness.
7. Proximity to a city can be expressed by the "postposiiton" xià 下.
- DISTANT
1. The clearly dominant term for distance in general is yuǎn 遠 (ant. jìn 近 "close").
2. Shū 疏 (ant. qīn 親 "close") often refers to distance of relation in a more than purely physical sense.
3. Yōu 悠 and jiǒng 迥 is a poetic word describing as distant something which one wishes was near.
4. Liáo 遼 is a poetic referring to what is distant and remote in space and therefore an obscure place. Note liáo yuǎn 遼遠.
5. Miǎo 邈 is a rare poetic word, and from the few usages we have it seems more frequently to refer to distance in time.
6. Yáo 遙 is an elusive poetic word referring to a mystical distance, typically the distance into which one roams freely xiāo yáo 逍遙.
7. Qù 去 can refer to concrete or abstract distance, and in the abstract case the distance is close in meaning to difference.
8. Lí 離 in this sense is a purely geometrical terms that can sometimes refer to the distance of some object from another.
9. Jué 絕 "cut-off, distant" is a fairly elevated way of referring to the remoteness of a region.
10. Xiá 遐 (ant. ěr 邇 "close"), a distinctly rare and archaic word, describes something as not only distant, but also ethereal, remote and difficult of access.