TOMBSTONE  碑

STONE PUT on a TOMB.
GRAVESTONEHEADSTONESTONEMEMORIALMONUMENT
Hypernym
  • STONECOMMON INTENSELY HARD SUBSTANCE in LANDSCAPE.
    • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
See also
  • COFFINTIMBER BOX USED FOR BURYING.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The current word for an inscribed tombstone or stele is bēi 碑, and specifically this was of square form.

    2. Jié 碣 refers to the round inscribed tombstone.

    黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
    HUANG JINGUI 2006

    HUMAN AFFAIRS 60.

    碑，記載死者的功德的長方形墓碑。

    碣，記載死者功德、圓形、上小下大的墓前標志物。

    楬，置於身份低下的死者墓前，標識其姓名以便家屬辨認的小木樁。

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    碑

    碣

    碑碣

    碑石

    貞石

    墓碑

    墓碣

    墓表

    神道碑

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

    Words

    碑  bēi OC: pre MC: piɛ 3 Attributions

    The current word for an inscribed tombstone or stele is bēi 碑, and specifically this was of square form.

      Syntactic words
    • ninscribed stele
    表  biǎo MC: pjewX OC: prawʔDS 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNmark the tomb with a tombstoneDS
    碣  jié OC: ɡrad MC: giɛt 0 Attributions

    Jié 碣 refers to the round inscribed tombstone.

      Syntactic words
    • nround inscribed tombstone (a tradition said to go back to Li Si of the Qin dynasty)

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: