SURVEY  通觀

LOOK at so as to INVESTIGATE MANY THINGS.
LOOK ATLOOK OVEROBSERVEVIEWCONTEMPLATEREGARDGAZE ATSTARE ATEYESCRUTINIZEEXAMINEINSPECTSCANSTUDYCONSIDERREVIEWTAKE STOCK OFINFORMAL SIZE UP
Hypernym
  • LOOKTRY to SEE.
    • TRYACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
See also
  • INSPECTOBSERVE so as to INVESTIGATE AS AN OFFICIAL.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. Guān 觀 is to try to get a detailed careful overview of something and to survey something complex with careful analytic attention.

    2. Lǎn 覽 is to look over something (often with pleasure, and typically from a highe perspective) with careful aesthetic and analytic attention and in order to get a full survey of all there is.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    綜觀

    通觀

    縱觀

    展望

    瞻望

    向前看

    觀察

    觀測

    察看

    相

    觀

    察

    體察

    考察

    審察

    洞察

    著眼

    察言觀色

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1252

      觀，覽，望

      1. WL finds that the focus of gua1n 觀 is on the subjective attention and la3n 覽 on comprehensiveness of coverage. In fact the main difference is that la3n 覽 is typically downwards from a higher perspective, and that la3n 覽 clearly tends to emphasise an aesthetic dimension of gaining a full view of something whereas gua1n 觀 typically emphasises detailed information gained through observation.

      2. WL sees wa4ng 望 as referring to viewing something from a distance. This is true enough, but it is my impression that an important general nuance of the word is complementary to la3n 覽 "gaze down all over", so that wa4ng 望 often comes to mean "look up to from afar", although there are generalised uses where wa4ng 望 refers to looking down into the distance e.g. from a mountain, and at sheep, with no nuances of admiration whatsoever.

      3. Note incidentally that la3n 覽 is extremely common from Han times in the meaning "to read with proper appreciation" which is lacking in WL.

    Words

    觀  guān OC: koon MC: kʷɑn 36 AttributionsWD

    Guān 觀 is to try to get a detailed careful overview of something and to survey something complex with careful analytic attention.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 遊 / 游/TRAVEL Yóu 遊／游 refers specifically to travelling for pleasure.
    • Assoc: 見/SEE The clearly dominant word is jiàn 見 (ant. méng 矇 "unable to see") which refers to any act of successful visual perception.
    • Assoc: 覽/SURVEY Lǎn 覽 is to look over something (often with pleasure, and typically from a highe perspective) with careful aesthetic and analytic attention and in order to get a full survey of all there is.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactmeditation
    • vadNobservation-, as in 觀臺 "observation tower"
    • viactlook at and enjoy things, look around; behold 觀者"beholder"
    • vt+prep+Nsurvey, go to inspect
    • vt+prep+Nfigurativelook upon (somebody); have a view on (somebody)
    • vtoNhave a good look at, survey, have a look at and enjoy, visit to have a look at, sound out; poetically: gaze at
    • vtoNfigurativelook upon (something); look (on things) SeeBELIEVE.
    • vtoNPab{S}enjoy the sight how S
    覽  lǎn OC: ɡ-raamʔ MC: lɑm 14 AttributionsWD

    Lǎn 覽 is to look over something (often with pleasure, and typically from a highe perspective) with careful aesthetic and analytic attention and in order to get a full survey of all there is.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 觀/SURVEY Guān 觀 is to try to get a detailed careful overview of something and to survey something complex with careful analytic attention.

      Syntactic words
    • viactlook around one appreciatingly
    • vt(oN)look over a determinate object
    • vt[oN]derivedsurvey all things poetically, spiritually, and aesthetically, envision the aesthetic universe poeticallyCH
    • vtoNrun one's eyes all over and appreciate, survey all over with appreciation
    • vtoNfigurativereview intellectually; gain a full intellectual survey of, gain an overview of
    觀樂  guān lè OC: koon ɡ-raawɡ MC: kʷɑn lɑk 3 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPjoys of view> beautiful views
    • VPisurvey for pleasureCH
    • VPtoNresultativesurvey so as to enjoy
    察  chá MC: tsrheat  OC: skhreed CH 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsurvey and learn all aboutCH
    玄覽  xuán lǎn MC: hwen lamX OC: ɡʷeen ɡ-raamʔCH 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPiactengage in a mystical total poetic vision of thingsCH
    瞻  zhān MC: tsyem OC: kljamCH 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsurvey in an investigative spiritCH
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      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsurvey and learn all aboutCH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsurvey in an investigative spiritCH

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