Taxonomy of meanings for 滿:　　

  • 滿 mǎn (OC: mboonʔ MC: mʷɑn) 莫旱切 上 廣韻：【盈也充也亦姓出山陽風俗通荆蠻有瞞氏音舛變爲滿魏有滿寵莫旱切五 】
    • FULL
      • nabfeaturea strong inner "plenitude", a state of being pervaded by vital essences
      • vibe full everywhere (typically a space)
      • vi0it is fill (with place topic which cannot perhaps be taken as a subject that is full)
      • vtoNpassivebe filled up
      • vifigurativeof moon: be fullCH
      • causative> FILL
        • vtoNfill out; fill out everywhere 滿於
        • vtoNmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
        • vtoNpassivebe filled
        • abstract: action> ACHIEVE
            • abstract> COMPLETE
              • vibecome full > be completed
              • vt0oN.adStemporalcomplete (a period of time) > after (a period of time) S
              • vtoNfigurativefill out completely (a number of years etc)
              • vtoNpassivebe completely fulfilled
              • vadNcomplete (handful etc)CH
              • vifigurative, derivedbe fulfilledCH
            • movement towards> REACH
          • abstract> ABUNDANT
            • vibe plentifulCH
            • economic> RICH
              • virich, wealthy, well offLZ
              • psychological: "full of oneself"> PROUD
                • nabpsychpride
                • vtoNreflexive.自be full of oneself
                • rhetorical: assertive> ASSERT
              • grammaticalised> INTENSELY
              • exocentric: full moon> MOON
              • proper name: Manchu> BARBARIAN
              • 滿 ｍｅｎ４《集韻》莫困切，去恨明。
                • zhōu mù wáng RULERS OF ZHOU
                  • NPprhumanSTANDARD NAME: King Mù of the Zhōu (reigned 956 - 918)ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Mǎn 滿 PARENTS: Son of >Zhōu Zhāo wáng 周昭王 WIVES:?CHILDREN: Father of >Zhōu Gòng wáng 周共王

                  Additional information about 滿

                  說文解字: 【滿】，盈溢也。从水、㒼聲。 【莫旱切】

                    Criteria
                  • DRY

                    1. The common general term for dryness is zào 燥 (ant. shī 濕 "wet").

                    2. Gǎo 槁 and kū 枯 (ant. rùn 潤 "lush") are common words referring specifically to dryness of trees and sometimes other plants.

                    3. Hé/hào 涸 (ant. mǎn 滿 "full of water") views dryness as the result of a process of dissication.

                    4. Gān 乾 (ant. shī 濕 "wet") focusses on the striking and complete absence of liquid.

                    5. Jié 渴 merely emphasises insufficient water supply or exhaustion of water supplies.

                    6. Jiāo 焦 adds to the notion of dryness that of exceesive heat.

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                  • EMPTY

                    1. The most geneal word is xū 虛 (ant. shí 實 "substantial and full") which can refer both to physical emptiness of a space and to abstract emptiness or tenuousness as a philosophical concept.

                    2. Kōng 空 (ant. mǎn 滿 "filled up") generally refers to literal emptiness of a container, but used adjectivally the word also has abstract uses as in kōng yán 空言 "empty words, abstract insubstantial discourse".

                    3. Wú 無 (ant. yǒu 有 "existence") refers to the philosophical abstract construct of "nothingness, emptiness".

                    4. Kuò 廓 and kuàng 曠 emphasise the expansiveness of the empty space.

                  • FILL

                    1. The most general and current word in this group is probably yíng 盈 (ant. xū 虛 "empty out") which refers to any filling up or filling in, abstract or concrete.

                    2. Chōng 充 refers to the concrete filling out completely of a container or a suitable empty space with (often desirable) physical substances.

                    3. Sài 塞 emphasises the nuance of filling in a space not necessarily designed to be filled in so as to block the free passage of other substances.

                    4. Mǎn 滿 is a word that was rather late to gain currency, replacing certain usages of yíng 盈, and it refers to the filling out of all of an empty space, with large amounts or large numbers of some specified kind of objects.

                    5. Tián 填 is originally to fill out something so as to make a level surface.

                  • FULL

                    1. The ancient standard word for fullness of any kind is yíng 盈.

                    2. Mǎn 滿 became current in late Warring States times only, and the word is semantically hard to distinguish from yíng 盈.

                    3. Chōng 充 refers to complete fullness, fullness to the brim, typically as something desirable or satisfactory.

                    4. Shí 實 can refer to something being full of solid substance, and thus by extension not tenuous or unimportant.

                    Word relations
                  • Ant: (FULL)空/EMPTY Kōng 空 (ant. mǎn 滿 "filled up") generally refers to literal emptiness of a container, but used adjectivally the word also has abstract uses as in kōng yán 空言 "empty words, abstract insubstantial discourse".
                  • Ant: (FILL)竭/EXHAUST Jié 竭 (ant. yíng 盈 "leave plenty of something") typically refers to the using up of what one has in one, or what one owns.
                  • Assoc: (FILL)充/FILL Chōng 充 refers to the concrete filling out completely of a container or a suitable empty space with (often desirable) physical substances.
                  • Assoc: (FULL)豐 / 酆/ABUNDANT Fēng 豐 (ant.*qiàn 歉 "poor natural harvest") refers primarily to the natural abundance of some feature or resource, but in elevated archaic discourse the word may also refer to abundance of sacrifice and the like. The rare fēng 丰 was not homophonous in ancient times, and the meaning emphasises beauty as well as abundance. [NATURAL!]