NOON    中午日中

TIME of MIDDLE of the DAY.
MIDDAY
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for the period around the middle of the day is rì zhōng 日中, and this construction hovers interestingly between the sentential original meaning "the sun reaches the highest point" and the idiomatic nominal meaning "noon", "at noon", thus jí rì zhōng 及日中 can be read as "when the sun reached the highest point" or "when it got to the point in time of noon" NB: Shǎng 晌 is a fairly rare popular word for lunchtime that is not used before Ming times.
Modern Chinese Criteria
中午 正午 午 晌午 亭午 日中 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • TIME　ABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN. (anc: 3/0, child: 11)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.45

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    MIDDAY

    meridies refers to noon as a point of time which sparates the forenoon from the afternoon.

    medius dies refers to the middle of the day, as a space of time which lies between the morning and the evening.

    • Words (5 items)

    日中  rì zhōng OC: mljiɡ krluŋ MC: ȵit ʈuŋ 24 Attributions

    The general word for the period around the middle of the day is rì zhōng 日中, and this construction hovers interestingly between the sentential original meaning "the sun reaches the highest point" and the idiomatic nominal meaning "noon", "at noon", thus jí rì zhōng 及日中 can be read as "when the sun reached the highest point" or "when it got to the point in time of noon"

      Syntactic words
    • NPmidday, noon
    • NPadVon midday, at noon
    中  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • n[adN]noonDS
    • nadN(the time of) noon
    中時  zhōng shí OC: krluŋ ɡljɯ MC: ʈuŋ dʑɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPadVat noon, during the middle of the day
    午  wǔ OC: ŋaaʔ MC: ŋuo̝ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ntimemidday
    晌  shǎng OC: qhjaŋʔ MC: ɕi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ntimepost-Han, MING: (popular:) noon, lunchtime