SHALLOW  淺

SMALL in DOWNWARD DIMENSION, of WATER.
Antonym
  • DEEPBIG SIZE DOWNWARD.
    Hypernym
    • SMALLLACK BIGNESS IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN.
      • LACKSITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE.
        • SITUATIONRELATION in which MANY HUMANS, FEATURES OR THINGS EXIST TOGETHER OR INTERACT.
          • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER....
    See also
    Modern Chinese Criteria
    淺

    一望見底

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.68

    • "三國志"同義詞及其歷史演變 ( WANG TONGWEI 2010) p. 473-481

      See SHORT. Wang Tongwei discusses the meaning short for 淺.

    Words

    淺  qiǎn OC: tshenʔ MC: tshiɛn 9 AttributionsWD

      Word relations
    • Subject: 知/UNDERSTAND The standard current and word for understanding something and knowing how to do something is zhī 知 (ant. mèi 昧 "not have the foggiest idea")
    • Ant: 博/BROAD Bó 博 (ant. yuē 約 "confined") is primarily metaphorical in application, and its concrete senses applied to physical objects are derived senses of the word only.
    • Ant: 深 / 深/DEEP The dominant current general word for anything deep in any sense is shēn 深 (ant. qiǎn 淺"shallow").
    • Assoc: 褊/NARROW

      Syntactic words
    • nabmetaphysicalthe shallow points
    • v[adN]what is shallow; a shallow way of doing thingsCH
    • vishallow (of water)
    • vifigurativesuperficial, shallow; narrow
    • vtoNfigurativepay only scant or shallow attention to; be shallow with respect to
    淺薄  qiǎn báo OC: tshenʔ baaɡ MC: tshiɛn bɑk 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPiactbehave in a shallow or superficial way
    • VPisubject=nonhumanbe shallow and superficialLZ

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