Taxonomy of meanings for 報:
- 報 bào (OC: puuɡs MC: pɑu) 博耗切 去 廣韻：【報告又下婬曰報博耗切一 】
- REACT
- nab[.post-N]one's own retribution (for one's deeds)
- nabeventBUDDH: positive or negative response to one's actions > retribution
- vtoNrespond; repay; retaliate; reward; revenge; act in response to
- linguistically:respond> ANSWER
- vtoNreply
- vtoN.+VtoSanswer N, saying...
- by written message to superiors> REPORT
- nreport
- vt(oN.)adVreporting to a contextually determinate person (say...)
- vt[oN]report back (to the authorities)
- vtoN.+VtoSreport to N and say:...
- vtoNmake a report, as requested, typically to authorities
- vtoSreport that
- vtt(oN1.)+N2report on a contextually determinate matter N1 to an audience N2
- negatively> REVENGE
- vtoNavenge; take revenge for (an event often identified in ZUO by a place name where that event occurred); take revenge on
- vtoNab{S}revenge the act described in S
- vtoNN=patienttake revenge on
- positively> REWARD
- nabactpositive response, reward; return of favour
- vt(oN)repay a contextually determinate favour
- vt+prep+Ngive rewards to
- vtoNN=actreward, return (a favour)
- vtoNN=humanreward somebody; recompense somebody
- vtoN1.-VtoN2reward N1 with N2
- vtt(oN1.) vtoN2reward the contextually determinate N1 with N2DS
- vt[oN]make rewardsDS
- intellectually> JUDGE
- vt[oN]HF: declare a legal judgment (and report judgment to the higher authorities)
- =?:conduct affair with an inferior> COPULATE
- vtoNacteuphemistic: enter into an erotic relation with a woman from a younger generation.
- REACT
- 報 fu4 《集韻》芳遇切，去遇，敷。
Additional information about 報
說文解字:
- Criteria
- REPORT
1. The current word for any report or the passing on of any information is gào 告. But see also ADDRESS.
2. Yù 語 is a common word referring to informal oral notification or instruction.
3. Bào 報 and the rarer fù 復 refer to an oral report to the authorities as required by these authorities.
4. Yè 謁 refers to the transmitting of a message, typically by the ancient Chinese equivalent of a butler.
5. Wén 聞 refers to making something known to a superior or to the public at large.
6. Fěng 諷 refers to an informal (often subtly disguised) personal opinion passed on to superiors.
7. Bái 白 refers to a personal report, often urgent, and typically by an inferior to a superior, and when used among equals it is a polite form of self-deprecation.
- REVENGE
1. The standard word for revenge is bào 報 (ant.* shè 赦 "let off").
2. Fù 復 (ant. miǎn 免 "let off") is occasionally used to refer to revenge in limited idiomatic contexts like fù chóu 復仇.
- RETRIBUTION
報
- REACT
1. The general term for a responding action is yìng 應 (ant. gǎn 感 "stimulate").
2. Bào 報 (ant.* 施 "take initiative to do something") refers specifically to some kind of paying back in kind, both positive and negative.
3. Dài 待 is to respond to a situation as best one can.
4. Huán 還 is occasionally used to mean "in return, by way of response".
- REWARD
1. The current general word for rewarding is shǎng 賞 (ant. fá 罰 "punish" and zhū 誅 "punish").
2. Láo 勞 (ant. chéng 懲 "punish") focusses on the contribution by those who are being rewarded.
3. Kào 犒 focusses on the festive character of the ceremony accompanying or constituting the reward.
4. Bào 報 construes the reward as being an interaction between equals.
5. Cí 賜 refers to a present to an inferior in recognition of the latter's worth. For most examples see GIVE.
NB: The meaning of shǎng 賞 "give as a present" is post-Buddhist.
- JUDGE
1. The general legal term for passing judgement is lùn 論.
2. Dāng 當 is to sit in judgment of a matter and determine guilt.
3. Duàn 斷 is the conclusion of the process of legal investigation.
4. Bào 報 refers to the announcement of the judgment passed.
5. Lǐ 理 refers to the office of the person who is professionally in charge of passing judgment, the judge.
- COPULATE
1. The current general word for copulation applying to both humans and animals, are jiāo 交, hé 合, and these are all rather discrete abstract terms to use.
2. Yù 御 refers to a male "riding" a female, and the word has no negative overtones.
3. Tōng 通 and sī 私 are neutral historian's terms for improper sexual intercourse.
4. Xì 戲 refers to a man making a sexual pass at a woman (occasionally actually one's own wife!).
5. Yín 淫 and huì 穢 are derogatory terms for engaging in lewd sexual activities with someone.
6. Xìng 幸 refers periphrastically and politely in historical texts to enjoying the sexual favours, typically of an emperor. See also FAVOUR
7. Zhēng 烝 refers to the ritual establishment of political relations with a widowed woman of one's senior generation through publicised spending of a night with her.
8. Bào 報 refers to establishing extramarital sexual relations with a woman of a (normally) lower but sometimes also of a higher generation, but not normally of the same generation.
9. Gǔ 蠱 refers to a male using irregular means to obtain the sexual favours of a woman he is not married to.
NB: gòu 構／媾 was late to become current as a term for sexual union.
- Word relations
- Contrast: (REVENGE)罰/PUNISH
Fá 罰 refers to non-physical forms of punishment including typically fines. See FINE - Assoc: (REPORT)告/REPORT
The current word for any report or the passing on of any information is gào 告. But see also ADDRESS. - Synon: (REWARD)賞/REWARD
The current general word for rewarding is shǎng 賞 (ant. fá 罰 "punish" and zhū 誅 "punish").