DESCEND    下

WALK OR MOVE DOWNWARDS.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for descending is jiàng 降 (ant. shēng 升 "ascend", dēng 登 "ascend"). 2. Xià 下 (ant. shàng 上 "ascend") sometimes refers colourlessly to something moving downwards.
Modern Chinese Criteria
下 降 下來 下降 下去 從天而降 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • ASCENDWALK to REACH a MORE HIGH PLACE. 
  • RISEMOVE UP.
See also
  • FALLMOVE DOWN PULLED by the FORCE of one's WEIGHT.
  • FALLMOVE DOWN PULLED by the FORCE of one's WEIGHT.
Hypernym
  • WALK　MOVE across the FLOOR>ground USING one's LEGS. (anc: 11/0, child: 16)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • CHANGE　EVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2. (anc: 9/0, child: 18)
  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 13B

    ABSITZEN(ABSTEIGEN)

  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 73

    • Words (10 items)

    下  xià OC: ɢraas MC: ɦɣɛ 48 Attributions

    Xià 下 (ant. shàng 上 "ascend") sometimes refers colourlessly to something moving downwards.

      Syntactic words
    • vifigurativego down (figuratively)
    • viprocessgo down; move down; flow downwards
    • vt(oN)go down, get down (from a contextually determinate place); dismount from a carriage
    • vt(oN.)-Vgo down to the contextually determinate place to V
    • vtoNdescend from
    • vtoNcausativelet somebody or something descend, cause something to come down; cause someone to dismount
    • vtoNN=aimdescend to; descend intoCH
    降  jiàng OC: kruums MC: kɣɔŋ 29 Attributions

    The current word for descending is jiàng 降 (ant. shēng 升 "ascend", dēng 登 "ascend").

      Word relations
    • Ant: 登/ASCEND Dēng 登 refer to one entering a vehicle or moving onto a higher surface of any kind, typically (but not always) in a dignified manner. [ELEVATED!]; [[CURRENT]]
    • Ant: 上/ASCEND Shàng 上 (ant. xià 下 "descend"), on the basis of the general meaning "above", comes to refer to the moving to the position on top of or above something else. [GENERAL]; [[CURRENT]], [[DERIVED]]
    • Ant: 騰/FLY Téng 騰 refers to the soaring high up into the sky, typically of big and impressive creatures like birds and dragons.
    • Ant: 陟/ASCEND Zhì 陟 "poetic: scale a mountain" (ant. jiàng 降"descend") are rare archaising words with highly restricted usage. [ARCHAIC], [SPECIFIC]; [[RARE]]
    • Assoc: 集/SIT Jí 集 refers to birds settling in a certain place, often but not always in a flock.

      Syntactic words
    • vadNdescending
    • viactdescend, go down
    • viprocessgo down
    • vt+prep+Ndescend on, alight on (a tree etc)
    • vt+prep+Nfigurativedescend from> be issued from, issue from a higher position
    • vtoNcausativecause to descend
    • vtoNcausativecause to go down> lower (one's aspirations etc)
    • vtoNextentdescend>decline by the extent N
    • vtoNN=extentdescend (e. g. by such and such a number of steps
    • vtoNobject=goaldescend to (a place)
    • vtoNobject=sourceget down from, go down from
    下降  xià jiàng OC: ɢraaʔ kruums MC: ɦɣɛ kɣɔŋ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiprocessdescend (from Heaven)
    頹  dù 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vifigurativefallingCH
    下之  xià zhī MC: haeH tsyi OC: ɢraas kljɯ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNdescend toCH
    下抵  xià dǐ MC: haeX tejX OC: ɢraaʔ tiilʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNdescend fromCH
    墮  duò MC: dwaX OC: ɡ-loolʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNdescend from NCH
    下至  xià zhì OC: ɢraas kljiɡs MC: ɦɣɛ tɕi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt0oN1.postN2figurativedescend and reach > down until, reaching to, until
    下向  xià xiàng OC: ɢraaʔ qhaŋs MC: ɦɣɛ hi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresultativemove down so as to approach> move down towards
    穨  tuí OC: ɡ-luul MC: duo̝i 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vichangego down; decend; decline (the sun)