BEACON   

FIRE USED AS a SIGNAL.
TORCH
Old Chinese Criteria
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC] 1. Fēng 烽 refers to the signal fire used to give smoke signals in daytime. [SPECIFIC] 2. Suì 燧 refers to the signal fire used to give signals at nighttime. [SPECIFIC] NB: Traditionally there have been two diametrically opposing views on this.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 WARFARE 23. 漢時白日所舉的烽、表、煙，可以總稱為烽，夜間所燔的積薪與苣火總稱為燧。南北朝起，漢之草烽、布烽業已廢止，唯有煙火， “ 烽 ” 除稱煙，亦可稱苣火。唐時， “ 烽 ” 已包括漢 “ 烽、燧 ” 之義，成為烽燧總稱。至於 “ 燧 ” ，漢以後可單用指亭燧之苣火；泛稱邊境報警的烽火。
Modern Chinese Criteria
烽火 烽煙 狼煙 烽燧 烽燹 兵燹 戰火 炮火 火網 煙塵 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • FIRE　HOT LIGHT which APPEARS ABOVE what BURNS. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • LIGHT　FEATURE which CAUSES THINGS TO BECOME VISIBLE AND LACKING which they are NOT VISIBLE. (anc: 4/0, child: 1)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    TORCH

    fax is the general word for a torch.

    taeda is a natural pine torch.

    funale is an artificial wax torch.

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 209

    Fackel:

  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 190

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 150

    • Words (6 items)

    烽燧  fēng suì OC: phoŋ sɢluds MC: phi̯oŋ zi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPbeacon system
    熢燧  fēng suì MC: -- zwijH OC: -- -- 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPsignal firesDS
    燧火  suì huǒ MC: zwijH xwaX OC: -- qphaalʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPsignal fireDS
    烽戍  fēng shù OC: phoŋ qhjos MC: phi̯oŋ ɕi̯o 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPbeacon fire; places with beacon fire
    烽  fēng OC: phoŋ MC: phi̯oŋ 0 Attributions

    Fēng 烽 refers to the signal fire used to give smoke signals in daytime.

      Syntactic words
    • nMO: beacon-fire, signal fire with which to give smoke signals in daytime
    燧  suì OC: sɢluds MC: zi 0 Attributions

    Suì 燧 refers to the signal fire used to give signals at nighttime.

      Syntactic words
    • ntorch, signal fire for use during the night