EASY    容易易／輕

POSSIBLE AND IF TRIED OFTEN ACHIEVED LACKING:without EFFORT.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for easiness of actions is yì 易 (ant. nán 難 "difficult"). 2. Qīng 輕 "light" is sometimes used to effortlessness of every kind. 3. Líng 泠 is a poetic word referring to graceful effortless ease of movement.
Modern Chinese Criteria
容易 簡易 輕易 便當 易於 輕 易 好 易如反掌 輕而易舉 如湯沃雪 如拾草芥 俯拾即是 信手拈來 唾手可得 垂手而得 探囊取物 甕中捉鱉 手到擒拿 談笑封侯 一揮而就 一蹴而就 一拍即合 迎刃而解 發蒙振落 舉手之勞 不費吹灰之力 如入無人之境 得來全不費功夫 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • CLEAR　EASY to PERCEIVE OR UNDERSTAND. (anc: 9/0, child: 0)
  • NATURALLY　EASILY AND NOT:without BECAUSE of being COMPELLED OR BECAUSE of PLANNING, OR USING A METHOD. (anc: 9/0, child: 1)
  • TRANSPARENT　EASY TO SEE THROUGH. (anc: 9/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • DIFFICULTPOSSIBLE BUT EVEN-IF TRIED ONLY ACHIEVED RARELY OR ONLY by USING BIG EFFORT.
Hypernym
  • POSSIBLE　ABLE TO BE DONE OR ABLE TO HAPPEN, OR ABLE TO BE THE CASE.  (anc: 7/0, child: 3)
  • ABLE　HAVE FEATURES one NEEDS in SELF:oneself FOR ACHIEVING something. (anc: 6/0, child: 16)
  • HAVE　RELATION to something such that it BE-IN:is in one OR is CONTROLLED by one. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 9.96

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 371ff

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.211.172

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  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.366

  • 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. 60A

    • Words (13 items)

    易  yì OC: leeɡs MC: jiɛ 92 Attributions

    The current general word for easiness of actions is yì 易 (ant. nán 難 "difficult").

      Word relations
    • Ant: 難/DIFFICULT The clearly dominant word for anything that is hard to achieve or hard to sustain is nán 難 (ant. yì 易 "easy").

      Syntactic words
    • nabacteasy naturalness
    • nabfeatureeasiness
    • nsubjectwhat is easy
    • v[adN]what is easy to do; what is the obvious thing to do; what is the natural thing to be doingCH
    • vadNeasy; without resistance
    • vadVwith ease, promptly; easily, without special cause; without proper constraint
    • viacttake it easy; be easygoing, be nonchalant; fail to take things as seriously as they deserve to be taken
    • vigradedeasy and natural; be easy and trifling; be an easy matter 
    • vimathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
    • vt+prep+Nabbe easier than NabCH
    • vt+V[0]putativebe prone to; find it easy to; be easily tempted to; come to V easily; regard it as easy to; regard as trifling
    • vt+V[0]{PASS}gradedbe easy to be V-ed
    • vtoNcausativemake things easy for
    • vtoNderivedfind easyCH
    • vtoNputativefail to take seriously, consider as easy to deal with; fail to pay the proper attention to
    • vtoNreflexive.自make things easy for oneself; be easy on oneself
    輕  qìng OC: kheŋs MC: khiɛŋ
    輕  qīng OC: kheŋ MC: khiɛŋ 10 Attributions

    Qīng 輕 "light" is sometimes used to effortlessness of every kind.

      Syntactic words
    • vadNeasily obtained (profit etc)
    • vadVeasily
    • vibe easy; need little effort; be effortless
    • vt+V[0]fail to take the matter of V-ing seriously; find it easy to; be easily ready to;
    無事  wú shì MC: mju dzriH OC: ma dzrɯs 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNfind no trouble with, find easyCH
    偃然  yǎn rán MC: 'jonX nyen OC: qanʔ njen 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPadVwith natural easeLZ
    易然  yì rán OC: leeɡs njen MC: jiɛ ȵiɛn 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiintensitiveto be very easy
    泠  líng OC: ɡ-reeŋ MC: leŋ 2 Attributions

    Líng 泠 is a poetic word referring to graceful effortless ease of movement.

      Syntactic words
    • vi-Pwith graceful ease
    • vi.redhave a graceful cool easeCH
    不難  bù nán MC: pjut nan OC: pɯʔ mɢlaan 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPilitotesbe easy enough; be not so difficult at all [probably not: "not particularly difficult" 待考]CH
    輕乎  qīng hū MC: khjieng hu OC: kheŋ ɢaa 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadVjust like that, for no strong reasonCH
    幾  jī OC: kɯl MC: kɨi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vadVeasily; just like that
    容易  róng yì OC: k-loŋ leeɡs MC: ji̯oŋ jiɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPieasy DCD: 《漢書‧楊惲傳》："郎中 丘常 謂 惲 曰：'聞君侯訟 韓馮翊 ，當得活乎？' 惲 曰：'事何容易！脛脛者未必全也。'" 北齊 顏之推 《顏氏家訓‧勉學》："校定書籍，亦何容易，...
    利  lì OC: rids MC: li 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    坐  zuò OC: sɡools MC: dzʷɑ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadVsitting down> effortlessly; without one having to do anything, without one doing anything
    好  hǎo OC: qhuuʔ MC: hɑu 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt+V(0)late: easy (for one) to V 好相與 "be easy to get along with"