BUT  然則

AND, CONTRARY to OR DIFFERENT from what has NOW been SPEAK:said.
HOWEVER
Hypernym
  • ANDALL of TWO THINGS OR ACTIONS OR FEATURES.
    • ALLCOMMON so that of NONE NOT.
      • COMMONEXISTING IN MANY THINGS OR PLACES.
        • EXISTBE-IN the UNIVERSE of SPACE AND TIME....
See also
Modern Chinese Criteria
但是

然而

只是

不過

可是

但



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

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 77

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 73

  • Logicheskii analiz yazyka ( ARYUTUNOVA 2002) p. 348

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 39A

    ABER

  • Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi ( SINGER 2002) p. 1,13

Words

而  ér OC: njɯ MC: ȵɨ 344 Attributions

    Syntactic words
  • padS1.post-S2but
  • padS1.postS2but, and yet
  • padV1.postV2adversativebut on the other hand; but on the contrary; and yet; but; whereas; 樂而不淫 "is joyful without being extravagant" between subject and predicate the word indicates that the predication is unexpected
然則  rán zé OC: njen skɯɯɡ MC: ȵiɛn tsək 23 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • PPadS1.postS2this being so, on the other hand...; if that is how things stand, then...; in that case, then...
抑  yì OC: qɯɡ MC: ʔɨk 12 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padS1.post-S2adversativehowever,...
顧  gù OC: klaas MC: kuo̝
故  gù OC: kaas MC: kuo̝ 9 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padS1.post-S2on the contrary,　instead; however; occasionally: on the other hand in return??
以  yǐ OC: k-lɯʔ MC: jɨ 8 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt+V1.postadV2小人甘以壞 "the petty man is sweet but ruins things": but in spite of this; but for all that
則  zé OC: skɯɯɡ MC: tsək 8 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padS1.post-S2but then
祇麼  qí mǒ OC: ɡe maalʔ MC: giɛ mʷɑ 7 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • PPadV.postScontrastivebut; but instead; whereas; nevertheless (Song colloquial)
要且  yào qiě OC: qews MC: ʔiɛu tshɣɛ 6 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • PPadS1.postS2however, but (occasionally used in the pattern 雖然... 要且...)
既  jì OC: kɯds MC: kɨi 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vadS1.post-S2but in the end??
乃  nǎi OC: nɯɯʔ MC: nəi 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padSSHU: but
而又  ér yòu MC: nyi hjuwH OC: njɯ ɢʷɯsLZ 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padS1.postS2and yet, but stillLZ
遂  suì OC: sɢluds MC: zi 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • padV.post-Sbut in the end
則是  zé shì OC: skɯɯɡ ɡljeʔ MC: tsək dʑiɛ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • PP+Nab{PRED}.postSbut this is a case of Nab
翻  fān OC: phan MC: phi̯ɐn 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padS1.postS2on the contrary; instead 反而： 庾信 《臥疾窮愁》詩："有菊翻無酒，無弦則有琴。"
轉  zhuǎn OC: tonʔ MC: ʈiɛn 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vadS1.post-S2Turning things round> on the other hand, on the contrary, but
可  kě OC: khlaalʔ MC: khɑ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padS1.post-S2but
直  zhí OC: dɯɡ MC: ɖɨk 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vadS1.post-S2but then; however; on the contrary

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: