PERSIST  繼續存在存

CONTINUE to EXIST.
CONTINUEHOLDCARRY ONLASTKEEP ONKEEP UPREMAINLINGERSTAYENDURE
Hypernym
  • CONTINUEACT OR EXIST RESEMBLE>as one has in the INTENSELY>very NEAR PAST.
    • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
See also
  • LIVEEXIST AND USE FOOD.
    • REMAINBE-IN ENDURINGLY:continuously in the FUTURE.
      • ENDURESUFFER DISTRESS AND NOT OPPOSE it.
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. The current general word for the persistence or continued existence of something is cún 存 (ant. wáng 亡 "cease to exist").

        2. Huó 活 "survive" (ant. sǐ 死 "die") refers specifically to survival of a living creature.

        3. Yí 遺 (ant. shī 失 "get lost") is used to refer to things that continue to exist or are handed down from earlier times.

        Modern Chinese Criteria
        繼續存在

        活下去

        存留

        殘存

        THERE MUST BE MANY MORE GOOD WORDS BUT I CANNOT FIND THEM.

        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. 14.252

        Words

        存  cún OC: sɡɯɯn MC: dzuo̝n 43 AttributionsWD

        The current general word for the persistence of something is cún 存(ant. wáng 亡 "cease to exist").

          Word relations
        • Ant: 亡/DISAPPEAR The dominant word for ceasing to exist is wáng 亡 (and there is no early evidence for the reading wú 亡).
        • Ant: 去/LEAVE The general word for leaving one place for another is qù 去 (ant. liú 留"remain").
        • Ant: 沒 / 歿/DIE Mò 沒/歿 (ant. cún 存 "survive") and zhōng 終are abstract elevated, polite words to use about the death of a significant person.
        • Contrast: 在/PERSIST

          Syntactic words
        • nabprocesssurvival, continued existence
        • v[adN]that which is due to persist or survive
        • vicontinuoussurvive; subsist, persist, continue to exist, remain
        • vtoNcausativecause to continue to exist; ensure the survival of, ensure the continued existence of
        • vtoNcausativebe made to continue to exist
        遺  yí OC: k-lul MC: ji 6 AttributionsWD

        Yí 遺 (ant. shī 失 "get lost") is used to refer to things that continue to exist or are handed down from earlier times.

          Syntactic words
        • vadNremaining, surviving; lingering
        安存  ān cún OC: qaan sɡɯɯn MC: ʔɑn dzuo̝n 3 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPabsafety and persistenceLZ
        • VPicontinue to exist in good shape
        活  huó OC: ɡood MC: ɦʷɑt 2 AttributionsWD

        Huó 活 "survive" (ant. sǐ 死 "die") refers specifically to survival of a living creature.

          Syntactic words
        • viprocesssurvive
        • vtoNcausativecause to survive
        久  jiǔ MC: kjuwX OC: klɯʔCH 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • vilast longCH
        在  zài OC: sɡɯɯʔ MC: dzəi 0 AttributionsWD

          Word relations
        • Contrast: 存/PERSIST The current general word for the persistence of something is cún 存(ant. wáng 亡 "cease to exist").

          Syntactic words
        • vtoNcausativecause not to perish, cause to persist
          Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • vilast longCH

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