ELEMENT 成素
BASIC PART.
Modern Chinese Criteria
Hyponym
- COSMIC FORCE FORCE, PRINCIPLE, OR ELEMENT which CONTROLS PERCEIVED PHENOMENA in the WORLD. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
- GENE BASIC ELEMENT which CONTROLS the DEVELOPMENT of an ANIMAL OR HUMAN from CONCEPTION ONWARDS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
LETTER
Litera refers to a letter as the indivisible part of writing.
elementum refers more generally to the indivisible basic elements of language.
See the literature on STOICHEION in Greek.
ELEMENTA
ELEMENT
ELEMENTENLEHRE
Words (5 items)
四大 sì dà OC: plids daads MC: si dɑi 11 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NP+Nappositionthe element(s) N
- NPadNmade up of the four basic elements
- NPbuddhistBUDDH: the four basic elements all physical substances are made of (水 water, 火 fire, 地 earth, 風 air) (see also 四界 and 四大界); SANSKRIT mahābhuta
法 fǎ OC: pab MC: pi̯ɐp 6 Attributions
- An Introduction to Buddhism
(
TAKASAKI 1987)
p.
70-76, 107 "ens (phenomena material and immaterial, physcial and mental, and concepts, i.e. objects of consciousness in general)."
- Syntactic words
- nbuddhistBUDDH: constituent of existence (GERMAN Gegebenheit); skr. dharma zhūfǎ 諸法 all dharmas, all constituents of existence (referring to physical as well as non-physical objects, also including mental objects, etc.)
諸法 zhū fǎ OC: klja pab MC: tɕi̯ɤ pi̯ɐp 3 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPbuddhistBUDDH: all constituents of existence; all dharmas (referring to physical as well as non-physical objects, also including mental objects, etc.)
五材 wǔ cái OC: ŋaaʔ sɡɯɯ MC: ŋuo̝ dzəi 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPfive types of substance
萬法 wàn fǎ OC: mblans pab MC: mi̯ɐn pi̯ɐp 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPbuddhistBUDDH: the 10,000 dharmas > all phenomena; all consituents of existence