ABOVE    上面上

PLACE HIGH IN-RELATION-TO OTHER PLACE.
OVERHIGHER THANHIGHER UP THANON TOP OFATOPONUPON
Old Chinese Criteria
[ABSTRACT/CONCRETE] [SPATIAL/TEMPORAL] 1. The standard word referring to what is above or on top is shàng 上. SPATIAL!, CONCRETE 2. Shàng 尚 is used verbally in an a figurative abstract way referring to higher status. Tóu 頭 is occasionally used to the upper side of things. NB: Shàng 尚 is used in various abstract ways and is not normally purely spatial in meaning. See SURPASS.
Modern Chinese Criteria
上 上面 上邊 上頭 上端 頂端 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • BELOWPLACE that is LOW IN-RELATION-TO something OTHER.
    See also
    • HIGHBIG VERTICALLY.
    • SURPASSBe MORE EXCELLENT OR STRONG IN-RELATION-TO ANOTHER IN ACTION.
    Hypernym
    • PLACE　PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 4/0, child: 39)
    • PART　OBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 8)
    • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 176

    SUPER, SUPRA

    509. Inter Super et supra hoc interest: Super est quod imminet [ Agraetius eminet], supra quod substratum aliquid habet. Item super interdum, aut nimium, aut satis accipimus.

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 233

    • Words (5 items)

    上  shàng OC: ɡljaŋs MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ 72 Attributions

    The standard word referring to what is above or on top is shàng 上. >>SPATIAL!, CONCRETE!

      Word relations
    • Ant: 下/BELOW The standard term referring to the relatively low position of something vis-a-vis something else is xià 下 (ant. shàng 上 "above"). [GENERAL]; [[COMMON]]

      Syntactic words
    • n(adN)the position above the contextually determinate other thing NCH
    • n(post-N)above the contextually determinate N
    • n(post-N)figurativein the leading position in respect to the contextually determinate N
    • n[adN]what is aboveDS
    • nadNupper; being situated above/upstairs
    • nadNfigurativeChristian Chinese: superior, belonging to a higher order of things
    • nadNnon-restrictive(Heaven) above (Note that there is no Heaven below or anywhere else.)
    • nadNtextabove (in the text) > the above mentioned/described
    • nadVaboveLZ
    • nadVfigurativeto the upper side, to the better sideLZ
    • nadVtextabove (in the text)
    • nfigurativethe leading position (above all)LZ
    • nhigha place above (a river etc) 濮水之上, a place higher than; a place on high
    • npost-.N+ZHIplaceon top
    • npost-.N+ZHItimebefore N, at N and beforeLZ
    • npost-Nthe upper side of; upon, on 泰山之上
    • npost-Nfigurativein the leading position in respect to N
    • npost-Nfigurativeabove of N > related to N
    • npost-Nplaceon something; on the top of something; in (an elevated place) (e.g. 堂上 (not: on the roof!)
    • n{PLACE}adVabove
    已上  yǐ shàng MC: yiX dzyangX OC: k-lɯʔ ɡljaŋʔ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPpost-Nvariant of 以上: above N; from N upwardsDS
    上間  shàng jiān OC: ɡljaŋs kreen MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ kɣɛn 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPaba place above; the upper part of a place; "upstairs"
    高  gāo MC: -- OC: koow 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vibe elevated (e.g. of places)LZ
    頭  tóu OC: doo MC: du 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Natop of N