MIST    霧霧

INTENSELY LOW CLOUD on the SURFACE of the EARTH.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for billowing mist and fog, especially as the medium in which dragons and the like are roaming, is wù 霧. 2. Xiá 霞 refers to misty, rosy diffuse clouds. Qì 氣 is sometimes used to refer to the misty substance that wù 霧 is made up of.
Modern Chinese Criteria
煙霧 雲煙 風煙 香煙 硝煙 烽煙 夕煙 霧 霧氣 霧靄 氛 雲霧 煙靄 暮靄 嵐 重霧 迷霧 refers to dense fog. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • DEWWATER from the AIR on COOL SURFACES, TYPICALLY VISIBLE in the MORNINGS.
  • SMOKEAIRY SUBSTANCE CAUSED-TO RISE by FIRE.
Hypernym
  • CLOUD　VISIBLE MASS of ASSEMBLED WATER OR ICE FLOATING IN the AIR. (anc: 7/0, child: 2)
  • WATER　INTENSELY COMMON TRANSPARENT LIQUID LACKING TASTE which FILLS RIVERS AND the SEA. (anc: 6/0, child: 10)
  • LIQUID　SUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW. (anc: 5/0, child: 9)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.73

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.74

    • Words (9 items)

    霧  wù OC: mos MC: mi̯o 16 Attributions

    The current general word for billowing mist and fog, especially as the medium in which dragons and the like are roaming, is wù 霧.

      Syntactic words
    • nadVanalogylike mist
    • nmmist, fog 登天遊霧
    • vadNmisty, foggy
    • viOBI 3: be overcast, cloudy; or perhaps, as many scholars believe, and as DK used to believe until he changed his mind, although he cannot remember why he did change his mind: be foggy [note, however, that the identification of the graph is somewhat tentative]
    • vi0there is fog
    氣  qì OC: khɯds MC: khɨi 4 Attributions

    Qì 氣 is sometimes used to refer to the misty substance that wù 霧 is made up of.

      Syntactic words
    • nmist; ethereal vapour
    雰  fēn OC: phɯn MC: phi̯un 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vibe misty and foggy; flakes of frost
    霧氣  wù qì OC: mos khɯds MC: mi̯o khɨi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialmists
    霧露  wù lù MC: mjuH luH OC: mos ɡ-raaɡs 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPm(cold) fogCH
    霞  xiá OC: ɡraa MC: ɦɣɛ 0 Attributions

    Xiá 霞 refers to misty, rosy diffuse clouds.

      Syntactic words
    • nmisty, rosy coloured clouds (appearing mainly in the morning or the evening)
    嵐  lán OC: p-ruum MC: ləm 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nmmountain mist
    雺霧  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC:
    霧  wù OC: mos MC: mi̯o 0 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 露/DEW The dominant word for dew is lù 露.

      Syntactic words
    • nmmist
    煙  yān OC: qiin MC: ʔen 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nadNmisty
    • nmmist