ONESELF    自身

SELF AND NOT the SPEAKER
Modern Chinese Criteria
自己 自家 自個兒 自各兒 自身 本身 一己 自我 本人 小我 我 自 己 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／　LU JIANMING
Hypernym
  • SELF　PERSON that is NOT OTHER. (anc: 8/0, child: 2)
  • PERSON　HUMAN as an ABSTRACT THING which FEELS, THINKS AND DECIDES, AND HAS RIGHTS AND DUTIES. (anc: 7/0, child: 4)
  • HUMAN　ANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS. (anc: 6/0, child: 31)
  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 9.292

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  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 361

    • Words (13 items)

    我  wǒ OC: ŋaalʔ MC: ŋɑ 111 Attributions

    自我

      Word relations
    • Oppos: 彼/THAT
    • Oppos: 彼/OTHER
    • Oppos: 民/PEOPLE The dominant current general word for the people is mín 民 (ant. jūn 君 "ruler"), and this term refers to the people particularly insofar as they are ruled by a ruler or belong to a state.
    • Oppos: 人/OTHER Rén 人 refers indefinitely to other persons, in the singular (someone else) or in the plural (other people), but never as "the other person" or as "the other people."
    • Oppos: 敵/ENEMY The general word for an enemy or opponent of any kind is dí 敵 (ant. yǒu 友 "friend") which can also often refer to mere competitors or adversaries.
    • Oppos: 外/OUTSIDE The dominant word for outside is wài 外, a word with great semantic and syntactic flexibility.

      Syntactic words
    • nabconceptthe concept of "oneself"CH
    • npro(adN)non-referential, militaryone's own military party, one's own army,　"敵我的我",  "己方軍隊", 我軍CH
    • npro+Vtnonreferentialpreposed object: oneselfCH
    • npro.aban abstractly nominalised pronounCH
    • npro.abnonreferential, contrastiveoneself
    • npro.postVtcf. 知我則知人"when one understands oneself then one will understand others" 化而使之為我 "if one transforms them to cause them to work for oneself 慎子）oneself 
    • npro0.adNmarkednon-referential: one's
    • npro0.adNunmarkedone's
    • npro0nonreferential, impersonalimpersonal pronoun: one, only sometimes contrastive: oneself (as opposed to other things) 
    • npro{PRED}be (a matter of/because of) oneself，是自我的事兒CH
    吾  wú OC: ŋaa MC: ŋuo̝ 108 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro(adN)militaryone's army; 自軍CH
    • npro0.adNimpersonalnon-referential: one's
    • npro0.adNmarked吾之　one's
    • npro0impersonalimpersonal pronoun: one, oneself
    己  jǐ OC: kɯʔ MC: kɨ 62 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Ant: 彼/THAT
    • Ant: 彼/THAT
    • Ant: 人/OTHER Rén 人 refers indefinitely to other persons, in the singular (someone else) or in the plural (other people), but never as "the other person" or as "the other people."
    • Oppos: 人/OTHER Rén 人 refers indefinitely to other persons, in the singular (someone else) or in the plural (other people), but never as "the other person" or as "the other people."
    • Oppos: 彼/OTHER

      Syntactic words
    • nab[.post-N]one's Self
    • npro(contrastive:) oneself
    • npro(.adN)the subject's (contextually determinate N)
    • npro.post:Vt+prepafter preposition: yourself, onelself, etc.
    • npro.postVtcontrastivecontrastive in object position: oneself, himself, herself, themselves
    • npro.postVtnon-contrastive知己
    • npro0.adNnon-referential, often contrastive: one's own 己力
    • npro0emphaticoneself (emphatic, contrasting with others)
    • npro{OBJ}+Vt(resumptive or reflexive:) oneself as object
    • npro{PRED}(contrastive:) be a matter of oneself; be a matter of the agent
    身  shēn OC: qhjin MC: ɕin 25 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-npropersonCH
    • npro身死國亡"he himself died and his state was ruined": oneself (as opposed to other people)
    • npro.adVin personCH
    • npro.post-Vtoneself (as object)CH
    自  zì OC: sblids MC: dzi 21 Attributions

      Syntactic words
    • npro.adVt[oN]indirect object: for oneselfVt things for oneselfCH
    • npro{OBJ}+Vtimpersonal自己把自己oneself; on one's own initiative
    • npro＋.Vt＋Nto Vt one's own NCH
    • npro＋Vthighest subjectVt oneself (NOT the subject of the Vt! Exceptional usage.)CH
    自我  zì wǒ MC: dzijH ngaX OC: sblids ŋaalʔ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPprooneself; his own selfCH
    自己  zì jǐ OC: sblids kɯʔ MC: dzi kɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • PP{DISCONT}reflexiveX oneself
    予  yú MC: yo OC: la 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adNrarely: one's very own (as opposed to 吾 "one's own")CH
    余  yú MC: yo OC: la 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adNNEVER in pre-Han or Han texts: one'sCH
    其  qí MC: gi OC: ɡɯ 1 Attribution

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 各/ALL Gè 各 quantifies by emphasising the separate features of each item quantiified over. [INDIVIDUAL], [SUBJECT-BINDING]; [n+Vt]

      Syntactic words
    • npro0one, German "man", French "on"CH
    己自  jǐ zì OC: kɯʔ sblids MC: kɨ dzi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPpro.adVoneself
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adNrarely: one's very own (as opposed to 吾 "one's own")CH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adNone'sCH