WIND  風風

AIR in STRONG MOTION.*Wind from a direction X. [Why so rarely the direction towards which the wind is moving?]
Hypernym
  • AIRGAS which FILLS SPACE ON EARTH. 
    • GASSUBSTANCE IN which THINGS CAN FLOAT AND FLY BUT NOT SWIM.
      • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
        • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT....
Hyponym
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The dominant word for wind is fēng 風.

2. Piāo 飄 and the rare biāo 飆 refer to whirlwind, and the word is also written with two characters as 扶搖.

3. Mái 霾 refers to a violent storm blowing as a sandstorm, or as a rainstorm.

Modern Chinese Criteria
風

大風

厲風

疾風

震風

狂風

盲風

剛風

巨風

暴風

飄風

狂飆

扶風

颶風

台風

微風

軟風

清風

泠風

雄風

和風

協風

惠風

凱風

燻風

暖風

寒風

淒風

悲風

陰風

冷風

厲風

朔風

熱風

炎風

焚風

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. 1.72

  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 448

    463. Ex Serv. ad ill. I. Aen., Creberque procellis Africus, et ipse Etymolog. lib. XIII, cap. 11.

    ]

    463. Inter Procellam et tempestatem. Procellas non tam terrarum 60 quam coeli esse, tempestates autem fluctuum sunt.

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    WIND

    ventus is the general word for wind.

    procella denotes a violent gust of wind.

    tempestas refers to a complete lasting storm or thunderstorm.

    vortex refers to a weak whirlwind.

    turbo refers to a strong whirlwind that causes destruction.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 185

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    VICTORIA

  • Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremmenogo russkogo jazyka. Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian ( Mel'cuk 1984) p. 178ff

  • Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du francais contemporain, vol. I ( Mel'cuk I) p. 168

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 250

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1797

  • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 58

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 71

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. NO.71

Words

風  fēng OC: plum MC: puŋ 30 AttributionsWD

The dominant word for wind is fēng 風.

    Word relations
  • Epithet: 涼/COLD Liáng 涼 (ant. wēn 溫 "lukewarm") describes a mild form of coldness, prototypically that of a cool breeze liáng fēng 涼風.
  • Epithet: 春/SEASON
  • Epithet: 飄/QUICK Piāo 飄 refers specifically to the speed of wind.
  • Contrast: 氣/AIR Qì 氣 "ether" is typically more abstract than English "air" and refers to constitutive energies underlying both air and wind as well as fog, dew, rivers, mountains and so on. The word is also the standard word for "breath". [ABSTRACT]; [[COMMON]]
  • Assoc: 雷/THUNDER
  • Assoc: 雨/RAIN The general word for rain of any kind is yǔ 雨.

  • Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine ( HSU 2010) p. 400

    Syntactic words
  • nabfigurativewindy energy, abstract windy force (very common in medical texts, but also outside those)CH
  • nabprocesswind; storm
  • nmadVanalogyby the wind ??; in the wind; like the wind
  • n{PRED}figurativebe wind (without or with 也)
  • vito expose oneself to wind
  • vi0there is a storm
  • vi0processit blows, there is wind; it becomes stormy
飄風  piāo fēng OC: plum MC: biɛu puŋ 22 AttributionsWD

    Syntactic words
  • NPabprocesswhirlwind [[Note incidentally that this binome is not normally used adverbially. Binomes of this sort are frequent. See however ZHUANG 2 who deviates from this rule.]]
飄  piāo OC:  MC: biɛu 6 AttributionsWD

Piāo 飄 and the rare biāo 飆 refer to whirlwind, and the word is also written with two characters as 扶搖.

    Syntactic words
  • nabprocesswhirlwind
  • nadVanalogylike the whirlwind> in a whirling way
  • viprocessblow, whirl about (like the whirlwind)
  • vtoNwhirl up
猋  biāo OC: pew MC: piɛu 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nadNviolent wind; storm （=飆）
  • nadVlike a whirlwindCH
霾  mái OC: mɢrɯɯ MC: mɣɛi 1 AttributionWD

Mái 霾 refers to a violent storm blowing as a sandstorm, or as a rainstorm.

    Syntactic words
  • nabprocessrainstorm and sandstorm
  • vi0there is a (sand)storm
大風  dà fēng OC: daads plum MC: dɑi puŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPabprocesswind-storm; great storm
疾風  jí fēng OC: dzid plum MC: dzit puŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPabeventstorm
羊角  yáng jiǎo OC: k-laŋ krooɡ MC: ji̯ɐŋ kɣɔk 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactmove like the whirlwind
雷風  léi fēng OC: ruul plum MC: luo̝i puŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP{N1&N2}thunderstorm
飄損  piāo sǔn OC: squunʔ MC: biɛu suo̝n 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNresultative(wind) blow to the extent of damaging
息  xī xí MC: sik OC: sqlɯɡCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabeventderived breathing>blowing: windsCH
觱  bì OC: pid MC: pit 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabprocesschilly wind
穨  tuí OC: ɡ-luul MC: duo̝i 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabprocessstrong wind; tornado
颸  sī OC: skhrɯ MC: ʈʂhɨ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabprocesscold wind
飆  biāo OC: pew MC: piɛu 0 AttributionsWD

Piāo 飄 and the rare biāo 飆 refer to whirlwind, and the word is also written with two characters as 扶搖.

    Syntactic words
  • nabprocesswhirlwind
  • nadVanalogylike a whirlwind　飆發

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