Taxonomy of meanings for 雜:　　

  • 雜 zá (OC: sɡuub MC: dzəp) 徂合切 入 廣韻：【帀也集也猝也穿也説文曰五綵相合也徂合切七 】
    • MIXED
      • vadNmixed; all kinds of; unsorted, unclassified 雜佩 "all kinds of ornaments worn on the belt"
      • vibe mixed, be impure; be mixed (colour); mixed (and confused/chaotic); (men and women sitting) sit mixed together
      • vtoNCAUSE TO GROW MIXED> plant in mixed flower-beds
      • vtoNcausativecause to get mixed up> mix up, bring together : 故先王以土与金木水火，以成百物
      • vtoNcontinuousbe mixed in with
      • vadNmalloyed, not constisting of one substance only; made up of mixed substances together
      • vtoNmiddlevoicebe mixed (and thus produced)CH
      • vtoNpassivebe mixed upLZ
      • v[adN]chaotically mixed, unsorted thingsLZ
      • vadVin a mixed wayDS
      • pigment> MULTICOLOURED
        • causative>EMBELLISH
          • causative>COMBINE
            • vtoNcombine (the five colours etc)
            • vt+prep+Ncombine attention to
            • vtoNpassivecombine
            • grammaticalised> spatial>TOGETHER
              • viactcome together, join up, arrive together 四方來雜，遠鄉皆至 “they gathered from the four quarters, and from distant parts they all met up"
              • abstract: intensitive>ALL
          • feature>DIRTY
            • v[adN]the impure one(s)LZ
          • pejorative>CHAOS
            • vadVchaotically
            • vibe mixed and in chaos
          • psychological>CONFUSED
            • vadNconfused, disorganised
            • vibe confused, distractable, disorganized
            • vadVin an ill-defined way
          • intellectual: slight, tenuous>UNIMPORTANT
              • exocentric: in unimportant role>ACTOR
                • nactor in a minor role like that of an ordinary person of no particular significance in a play
          • =匝
        • záSCATTER
          • vadNpassivescattered

        Additional information about 雜

        說文解字:

          Criteria
        • ACROBATICS

          1. The current general word for acrobatics in WEISHU 魏書 is zá xì 雜戲.

          2. Current acrobatic acts include illusion arts, breathing fire, juggling upto nine objects in the air, jumping through narrow rings, stand on one's hands on a ball, tight-rope walking, climbing up a high pole (also on a moving cart), standing on one's hands on piles of tiles, keeping plates turning in mid-air, balancing complex objects on a pole placed on one's forehead. All these are abundantly illustrated on Han tiles.

        • PURE

          1. The standard general term for purity is chún 純 (ant. zá 雜 "mixed").

          2. Sù 素 (ant. huá 華 "well-adorned") adds to the notion of purity that of the unadulaterated original state of something.

          3. Qīng 清 (ant. zhuó 濁 "dirty, impure") and the rarer chéng 澂 emphasises the absence of any admixtures that might make something less transparent and translucent.

          4. Jìng 淨 (ant. wū 污 "impure") emphasises the unsullied state of something and the absence specifically of dirt.

          5. Chè 澈 (ant. hún 渾 "murky") focusses on perfect transparency.

          6. Jié 潔 / 絜 (ant. wū 污 "impure" and zhuó 濁 "dirty") refer abstractly to the absence of any material or immaterial impurity or blemish.

          7. Chún 醇 (bó 駁 "mixed") refers specifically to the undiluted state of wine but the word is also used in generalised senses of purity.

        • MIXED

          1. The current word for anything not unified or mixed is zá 雜 (ant. cuì 粹 "pure").

          2. Rǒu 糅 refers to an indistinguishable mixture of things, mostly in a negative sense.

          3. Bó 駁 sometimes refers figurativelyj to something as having varying and not properly constant features.