BECOME    變為

BEGIN to BE something.
GROWGETTURNCOME TO BEGET TO BELITERARY WAX.TURN INTOCHANGE INTOBE TRANSFORMED INTOBE CONVERTED INTO.BE APPOINTED (AS)BE ASSIGNED ASBE NOMINATEDBE ELECTED (AS)BE MADE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard general word for becoming is wéi 為. 2. Chéng 成 often refers to something becoming something else by an effort or by voluntary action.
Hyponym
  • DISAPPEAR　BECOME LACKING:absent. (anc: 15/0, child: 1)
See also
  • BEGINENDURINGLY STOP NOT to ACT OR to BE RESEMBLING:as in the PAST.
Hypernym
  • BEGIN　ENDURINGLY STOP NOT to ACT OR to BE RESEMBLING:as in the PAST. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
  • STOP　ACT so as NOT to CONTINUE NOW:present ACTION. (anc: 12/0, child: 10)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 12.540

    WERDEN/VERGEHEN

    • Words (10 items)

    為  wéi OC: ɢʷal MC: ɦiɛ 160 Attributions

    The standard general word for becoming is wéi 為.

      Word relations
    • Result: 化/CHANGE Huà 化 (ant. cháng 常 "remain constant") refers to irreversible change into a fundamentally new state, while retaining one's identity.
    • Result: 轉/CHANGE Zhuǎn 轉 refers to change typically construed as part of a cycle of changes.

      Syntactic words
    • vt+Nbecome (a ruler; a misfortune etc.)
    • vt+Nderivedsubject situation: lead to (a new event or situation)CH
    • vt+Nimperativemust become; are to become
    • vt+V[0]become Vi
    • vtoNcausativecause to become
    • vttoN1.+N2to become (something or somebody N1) (for somebody else N2) 為之氓
    • vttoN1.postvtoN2{OBJ}become the N2 of N1CH
    作  zuò OC: tsaaɡs MC: tsuo̝
    作  zuò OC: tsaals MC: tsɑ
    作  zuò OC: tsaaɡ MC: tsɑk 25 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt+Ncopulabecome, turn into; turn oneself into
    • vtoN...so that it becomes (should probably be read as vpostadV
    變為  biàn wéi OC: prons ɢʷal MC: piɛn ɦiɛ 10 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPt+V[0]resultativechange from one's original state to become V
    • VPtoNpassivebe changed into
    • VPtoNresultativechange from one's original form to become, turn into
    成  chéng OC: djeŋ MC: dʑiɛŋ 10 Attributions

    Chéng 成 often refers to something becoming something else by an effort or by voluntary action.

      Syntactic words
    • vt NprocessbecomeCH
    • vt+Nmanage to become an N 成霸
    • vt+V[0]get to be V　
    徙為  xǐ wéi OC: selʔ ɢʷal MC: siɛ ɦiɛ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativebe transferred to become
    成為  chéng wéi OC: djeŋ ɢʷal MC: dʑiɛŋ ɦiɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNbecome
    化為  huà wéi MC: xwaeH hjweH OC: hŋʷraals ɢʷal 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vt+Nbecome NCH
    化成  huà chéng OC: hŋʷraals djeŋ MC: hɣɛ dʑiɛŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativebecome
    化  huà OC: hŋʷraals MC: hɣɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt+Nbecome, change into
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt Nbecome NCH