FATHER  父親

MALE PARENT.
DADDADDYPOPPADADAPAPAOLD MANPATRIARCHPATERFAMILIAS
Hypernym
  • PARENTRELATIVE who has ENGENDERED OR BIRTH:given birth to a CHILD.
    • RELATIVESHUMANS who HAVE COMMON ANCESTORS.
      • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
        • ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE....
See also
Hyponym
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The completely dominant word is fù 父

2. Kǎo 考 refers to the deceased father, but can also come to refer to a living father in SHU.

3. Wēng 翁 "old man" is occasionally used, from Han times onwards, to refer periphrastically to one's aged father.

4. Xiān jūn 先君 is standardly used by a ruler for his deceased father.

黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 HUMAN AFFAIRS 6. 父親。

父,通稱。

公,尊稱,從年老而稱。

君,尊稱,從父親位高權重而稱。

考,先秦時可稱生父,漢時專指亡父。

皇,皇考,亡父祭名的尊稱。

禰,指亡父神主入廟後對父親的稱呼。

阿爹,東漢時期出現,為己父的俗稱。

yán 嚴, 尊侯,尊君,尊公,令嚴,椿,椿庭,先君浶 F 10.3.10: deceased father �

Modern Chinese Criteria
父 is literary.

父親 is the standard word.

老爸 is a familiar and perhaps slightly over-familiar and humorous way of addressing one's father.

爺 is an old-fashioned upper-class designation for a father.

爹 is a standard familiar term of address to one's father..

爸 is a familiar term of address to one's father.

大 is a highly informal colluqial way of referring to one's father.

翁 is a highly literary way of referring to oneself as a father.

爸爸 is a colloquial way of referring to one's father.

老子 is a slang expression for a father used only in his absence.

爹爹 is a colloquial way of referring to one's father.

老爹 is a familiar colloquial way of referring to one's father.

阿爹 is a familiar colloquial way of referring to one's father

阿爸 is a familiar colloquial way of referring to one's father

椿

椿庭

太公

所天

嚴父

嚴親

嚴君

嚴命

大人

郎罷

令尊

令翁

令椿

尊翁

老太爺

老爺子

尊公

尊父

尊大人

尊大君

家父

家嚴

家尊

家君

家公

家翁

家大人

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

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Words

  fù OC: baʔ MC: bi̯o 58 AttributionsWD

The completely dominant word is fù 父

    Word relations
  • Conv: 子/CHILD The commonest word for a child is zǐ 子"son; child; rarely: baby".
  • Object: 事/SERVE The current general word for serving another is shì 事 (ant. shǐ 使 "deploy").
  • Epithet: 慈/LOVE Cí 慈 (ant. rěn 忍 "callous, unfeeling") is primarily the intimate emotional concern of mothers/parents for their children, and by extension such concern of a fatherly ruler for his people. [EMOTIONAL], [PRACTICAL]
  • Assoc: 兄/BROTHER Xiōng 兄 regularly refers to the eldest brother as the head of his own generation (explicitly bó xiōng 伯兄), but the word often refers more generally to elder brothers, including those who are not the heir in the clan.
  • Assoc: 母/MOTHER

    Syntactic words
  • n(post-N)the father of a contextually determinate N
  • n[post-N]my father
  • n[post-N]reflexiveone's own father
  • nabconceptfatherhood, role of a father
  • nabfigurativeguiding principle; (fatherly) philosophical principle and guide for lifeCH
  • nadNn=subjectfather's = issued by fatherDS
  • nadVobjectlike a father
  • nnonreferentiala father in general
  • npluralfathersCH
  • npost-NN's fatherDS
  • npost-N.=Nprhis/her father NprDS
  • npost-NprNpr's fatherDS
  • npostNprfigurative"father" XYDS
  • viactact as a father should
  • vtoNattitudinaltreat as one's father
  kǎo OC: khuuʔ MC: khɑu 13 AttributionsWD

Kǎo 考 refers to the deceased father, but can also come to refer to a living father in SHU.

    Syntactic words
  • nfather (alive)?????
  • npost-N.+Npr(N's) deceased father (Npr)
  • nt(post-N)deceased father
先君  xiān jūn OC: sɯɯn klun MC: sen ki̯un 7 AttributionsWD

Xiān jūn 先君 is standardly used by a ruler for his deceased father.

    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N]reflexivefather of the current ruler (of this state); our former ruler; father of the person just talked about
  • NPt(post-N)=NprNpr, the deceased ancestor of NDS
皇考  huáng kǎo OC: ɡʷaaŋ khuuʔ MC: ɦɑŋ khɑu 4 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPhonorific and poetic term for one's father [also sometimes: great-grandfather][CA]
  jūn OC: klun MC: ki̯un 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nthe ruler (i.e. my father)
  yé OC: la MC: jɣɛ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han: father is an honorific but colloquial term
君父  jūn fù OC: klun baʔ MC: ki̯un bi̯o 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPthe ruler, my father; the ruler and father
寡君  guǎ jūn OC: kʷraaʔ klun MC: kɣɛ ki̯un 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPmy lord> my father
王考  wáng kǎo OC: ɢʷaŋ khuuʔ MC: ɦi̯ɐŋ khɑu 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPLIJI: (deceased) grand-father
顯考  xiǎn kǎo OC: qhleenʔ khuuʔ MC: hen khɑu 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPLIJI: great-great grandfather
  gōng OC: klooŋ MC: kuŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • ntfather (LIE)
  huáng OC: ɡʷaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nfather
人父  rén fù OC: njin baʔ MC: ȵin bi̯o 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPnonreferentiala father
夫子  fū zǐ OC: pa sklɯʔ MC: pi̯o tsɨ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPthe master> referring to the father of a contextually determinate person
婀爺  ā yé OC: qlaal la MC: ʔɑ jɣɛ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPfather (probably a graphic variant of 阿爺)
阿爺  ā yé OC: qlaal la MC: ʔɑ jɣɛ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPfather
  qīn OC: tshiŋ MC: tshin 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • n(post-N)SHIJI: father
尊君  zūn jūn MC: tswon kjun OC: tsuun klunDS 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP(post-N)honourable father of the contextually determinate N DS
  hù OC: ɡaaʔ MC: ɦuo̝ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han: what one relies on, i.e. one's father
  bà OC: baalʔ MC: bʷɑ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han: pa, daddy
  diē OC: krlal MC: ʈɣɛ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han: pappa
  wēng OC: qlooŋ MC: ʔuŋ 0 AttributionsWD

Wēng 翁 "old man" is occasionally used, from Han times onwards, to refer periphrastically to one's aged father.

    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han: grandfather
  • ntSJ: father (ian old but rare periphrastic way of referring to a father)
  yé OC: la MC: jɣɛ 0 AttributionsWD

    Word relations

    Syntactic words
  • ninformal: father> pappa
先人  xiān rén OC: sɯɯn njin MC: sen ȵin 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N]father

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