SHALLOW    淺

SMALL in DOWNWARD DIMENSION, of WATER.
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 ／
Antonym
  • DEEPBIG SIZE DOWNWARD.
See also
Hypernym
  • SMALL　LACK BIGNESS IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN. (anc: 7/0, child: 8)
  • LACK　SITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE. (anc: 6/0, child: 48)
  • SITUATION　RELATION in which MANY HUMANS, FEATURES OR THINGS EXIST TOGETHER OR INTERACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 11)
  • 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 (2 items)

    淺  qiǎn OC: tshenʔ MC: tshiɛn 9 Attributions

      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 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiactbehave in a shallow or superficial way
    • VPisubject=nonhumanbe shallow and superficialLZ