SOUR  酸

FLAVOUR LIKE that of VINEGAR. []
ACIDACIDICACIDYACIDULATEDTARTBITTERSHARPVINEGARYPUNGENTTECHNICAL ACERBIC
Antonym
  • SWEETFLAVOUR RESEMBLING that of SUGAR.
    Hypernym
    • FLAVOURAPPEARANCE PERCEIVED BY TASTING.
      • APPEARANCECLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
          • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
    See also
    黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
    HUANG JINGUI 2006

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    酸

    酸溜溜

    酸不溜丟

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

    • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 15.38

    • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.73

    • Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages ( DE VAAN 2008) p.

      aceo 'to be acid, sour' [v. II] (Cato+)

      Derivatives: acetum 'sour wine, vinegar' (P1.+), acetabulum 'vinegar container

      (Cato+); acidus 'acid, sour' (P1.+); acor [m.] 'acid' (Col.+); acies [f.] 'sharp edge

      (P1.+).

    Words

    酸  suān OC: sqloon MC: sʷɑn 13 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabfeaturesourness
    • nsubjectthe sour
    • vichangeget sour, go sour (e.g. of wine)
    醋  cù OC: tshaaɡs MC: tshuo̝ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vichangego sour (of milk, presumably also of wine)

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: