CATCH UP  追到

REACH AFTER PURSUING.
REACHBE EVEN WITHGAIN ONCLOSE IN ON
Hypernym
  • REACHAPPROACH so as to BECOME:come to be IN A CERTAIN PLACE.
    • APPROACHWALK so as to BECOME NEAR to something.
      • WALKMOVE across the FLOOR>ground USING one's LEGS.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Jí 及 emphasises the result of the successful pursuit, the reaching itself.

2. Zhuī 追 emphasises the process of the pursuit which has resulted in catching up.

Modern Chinese Criteria
追到 is current modern Chinese for catching up with someone.

趕上

趕得上

MORE SYNONYMS?

first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL. 18.11.2003. CH

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 10.54

  • 韓非子同義詞研究 ( HANFEI TONGYI 2004) p. 246

Words

及  jí OC: ɡrɯb MC: gip 22 AttributionsWD

Jí 及 emphasises the result of the successful pursuit, the reaching itself.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 如/EQUAL Rú 如 refers to equalling something else as it were "from below", coming up to a something else in a certain sense.
  • Assoc: 追/PURSUE Zhuī 追 refers to the attempt of catching up with anything, characteristically a kòu 寇 "enemy" or thief (who may not know he is being pursued) but without any attending notion that what is being caught up with is NECESSARILY trying to escape or to make great speed, and the word is regularly used in figurative derived meanings "to seek", as in zhuī lì 追利 "chasing after profit".

    Syntactic words
  • vt(oN)catch up with the contextually determinate object
  • vtoNfigurativecatch up with, reach the same level as, be as strong/good as
  • vtoNfigurative"catch up with oneself", come to one's senses?
  • vtoNpassivebe caught up with
  • vtoNperfectivecatch up with (someone or something whom one is pursuing)
追  zhuī OC: krlul MC: ʈi 7 AttributionsWD

Zhuī 追 emphasises the process of the pursuit which has resulted in catching up.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNpassivebe caught up with
  • vtoNperfectivecatch up with
逮  dài OC: ɡ-lɯɯds MC: dəi 4 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNcatch up with; overtake
  • vtoNfigurativereach adequately to, represent adequately; catch up with semanticallyCH
  • vtoNpassivebe overtaken by
追至  zhuī zhì MC: trwij tsyijH OC: krlul kljiɡsDS 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPt(oN)resultativecatch up with the contextually determinate personDS
贏  yíng MC: yeng OC: leŋCH 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNcatch upCH

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