ACTOR    演員

An ENTERTAINER who DISPLAYS ACTS in DRAMAS.
Old Chinese Criteria
The concept of a person specialising professionally in impersonation of others is of considerable cultural importance.
Modern Chinese Criteria
演員 伶人 優伶 俳優 戲子 伶工 行院 表演者 優 伶 老斗 名伶 名優 末泥 "actor playing old man" 男角兒 老臉 "actor with painted face" 生角 臺柱 童伶 頭牌 箱底兒 戲包袱 戲家 戲子 藝員 優伶 優人 主唱 主演 老伶工 老牌 伶人 梨園子弟 梨園弟子 藝人 refers more generally to an entertainer, and is marginal in the group. See ENTERTAINER. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
    Hypernym
    • ENTERTAINER　ARTISAN:specialist AIMING to AMUSE OTHERS. (anc: 10/0, child: 4)
    • ARTISAN　WORKER who WORKS on CONCRETE THINGS he is EDUCATED FOR. (anc: 9/0, child: 9)
    • WORKER　ADULT EMPLOYED by the GOVERNMENT OR by ENTREPRENEURS to WORK FOR them.[[ARBEITER]] (anc: 8/0, child: 1)
  • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 21

    ACTEUR

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    ACTOR

    • Words (3 items)

    雜  zá OC: sɡuub MC: dzəp 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nactor in a minor role like that of an ordinary person of no particular significance in a play
    坤角  kūn jiǎo OC: khuun krooɡ MC: khuo̝n kɣɔk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPfemale actor
    坤伶  kūn líng OC: khuun ɡ-reeŋ MC: khuo̝n leŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPfemale actor