PLACE    地方處

PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
SPACELOCATIONSITESPOTSETTINGPOSITIONSITUATIONAREAREGIONLOCALEVENUE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most general word referring to the location of something is chù 處 which may refer to the location in which a thing happens to be at some point in time, or to the place where something belongs, and the word refers to both abstract and concrete spatial location. 2. Suǒ 所 "proper place", when used pregnantly on its own, refers to the place where a thing basically belongs, where someone lives, and where something should be. This word was the most common word for a place in early literature. Quite frequently, the word refers not just to a place, but particularly to a building in a place. 3. Dì 地 is primarily a territory, and only by occasional extension the abstract location of something. 4. W4èi 位 sometimes comes to refer to the position in a terrain. 5. Chǎng 場 refers specifically to the location for certain activities like threshing etc.
Modern Chinese Criteria
地方 is the current general modern word for a place. 地兒 is northern colloquial for 地方. 處 (lit) is a very common literary general word for place. 所 (cl, lit) is sometimes still used to refer to a place where something hapens. 地域 refers to a largish bounded geographic area. 地區 refers to a political or administrative region. 地面 is sometimes used as a colloquial term for a geographic area. 地段 refers to an administrative sector. 地帶 refers figuratively to a swathe of land. 所在 (lit) refers to the place something is. 地點 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • BEHIND　PLACE on the MORE DISTANT SIDE of a THING as SEEN FROM the HUMAN WHO SEES THIS THING. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • BELOW　PLACE that is LOW IN-RELATION-TO something OTHER. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • BETWEEN　RELATION of one PLACE to TWO PLACES IN EXACTLY CONTRARY DIRECTIONS, OR the PLACE that has THESE RELATIONS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • CITY　BIG PLACE that CONTAINS MANY STREETS AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, AND where INTENSELY MANY PEOPLE LIVE NEAR TOGETHER. (anc: 5/0, child: 2)
  • CORNER　PLACE where EDGES OR SIDES of something MEET. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • COURTYARD　PLACE BETWEEN HOUSES LACKING BUILDINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • SKY　PLACE in SPACE CONTAINING the SUN, the MOON and the STARS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • IN FRONT　PLACE BETWEEN SPEAKER AND something OR NEAR in the DIRECTION the SPEAKER LOOKING. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • INSIDE　PLACE which BE-IN:is-in ANOTHER MORE BIG PLACE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • CAMP　PLACE where an ARMY DWELLS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • NEST　PLACE where a BIRD LIVES, SLEEPS AND REARS its OFFSPRING. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • OPEN AIR　The PLACE OUTSIDE BUILDINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • WAY　LONG AND NARROW LEVEL PLACE ON which HUMANS GO TO PLACES OR TRAVEL TO DISTANT PLACES. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • SIDE　PLACE to the LEFT OR RIGHT, AND NOT IN FRONT OR BEHIND. (anc: 5/0, child: 2)
  • TERRITORY　PLACE INSIDE DEFINED BOUNDARIES. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
  • TIP　PLACE at the END of a LONG THING. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • ABOVE　PLACE HIGH IN-RELATION-TO OTHER PLACE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • VILLAGE　SMALL PLACE where MANY HUMANS, TYPICALLY PEASANTS, LIVE TOGETHER. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • WHERE　IN WHAT PLACE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • WORLD　PLACE UNDER the SKY.[[WELT]] (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • ROOM　PLACE in which one DWELLS, SURROUNDED BY WALLS, in a BUILDING. (anc: 5/0, child: 2)
  • MARKET　PLACE CONTAINING MANY SHOPS that are MUTUALLY CLOSE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • SOURCE　The PLACE where a RIVER OR BROOK BEGINS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • MIDDLE　PLACE OR TIME at the SAME DISTANCE FROM BORDERS OR LIMITS SURROUNDING them, OR IN-RELATION-TO TWO SIDES. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • HOME　PLACE where one DWELLS ENDURINGLY OR ORIGINALLY. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • UNIVERSE　PLACE AND TIME which CONTAINS ALL ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE THINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • HERE　PLACE NEAR to the SPEAKER. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • EVERYWHERE　IN ALL PLACES. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • BORDER AREA　PLACE NEAR a BORDER AND TYPICALLY INSIDE ONE STATE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • AWAY　FROM HERE OR FROM THERE, DISTANT FROM one's SELF:own DWELLING.  (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • HARBOUR　PLACE where SHIPS CAN DROP ANCHOR AND are PROTECTED, AND where ONE CAN LEAVE SHIPS AND ENTER the SHORE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • HELL　UNDERWORLD in which SOULS SUFFER AFTER DEATH. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • CROSSROADS　PLACE WHERE TWO OR MORE WAYS are LINKED. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • REALM　ABSTRACT PLACE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • THERE　IN THAT PLACE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • SHADE　PLACE LACKING LIGHT of SUN SURROUNDED BY PLACES WITH LIGHT OF SUN. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • TOP　MOST HIGH PLACE in something. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • UNDERWORLD　FLACE FOR AFTERLIFE (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • CHURCHYARD　 (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • PART　OBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 8)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.11

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    PLACE

    locus refers to a space as a single location, a single point in space.

    tractus refers to a an extended tract of land, conceived particularly as reaching from one place to another.

    regio refers to a plot of land, conceived particularly as forming a circle-like bounded region.

    plaga refers to a space principally as a surface.

  • () p.

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    LOCUS

  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 51

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 8.67

    RAUM

  • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 89

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 15

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 88

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.328.289

    LIEU.ENDROIT.PLACE

    • Words (19 items)

    所  suǒ OC: sqraʔ MC: ʂi̯ɤ 59 Attributions

    Suǒ 所 "proper place", when used pregnantly on its own refers to the place where a thing basically belongs, where someone lives, and where something should be. This word was the most common word for a place in early literature. Quite frequently, the word refers not just to a place, but particularly to a building in a place.

      Word relations
    • Synon: 處/PLACE The most general word referring to the location of something is chù 處 which may refer to the location in which a thing happens to be at some point in time, or to the place where something belongs, and the word refers to both abstract and concrete spatial location.

      Syntactic words
    • nfigurative: proper location, proper place for one; proper function
    • n(post-N)the place where N belongsCH
    • nab.post-Sthe place S where obtains [S may be nominalised]
    • nabfigurativeabstract place; occasion; office
    • npost-Nthe place as specified by N
    • npost-Nsuffixthe place where N is (and belongs) (cf. modern Chinese 他那邊兒)
    • npro{OBJ}-.VtoNe.g. 無所取材 "lack a place where to find suitable material" place where the explicit or implicit subject of the phrase Vt-s the object NCH
    • npro{OBJ}-Vt.adNe.g. 卿所死處 "the location of the place where the senior minister died": the place where the explicit or implicit subject Vt-sCH
    • npro{PLACE}+VtoNthe place where the subject Vt's the objectTWH
    處  chù OC: qhljas MC: tɕhi̯ɤ 22 Attributions

    The most general word referring to the location of something is chù 處 which may refer to the location in which a thing happens to be at some point in time, or to the place where something belongs, and the word refers to both abstract and concrete spatial location.

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 地/PLACE Dì 地 is primarily a territory, and only by occasional extension the abstract location of something.
    • Assoc: 區/TERRITORY Qū 區 typically refers to what is regarded as a subdivision of some territory, according to some criterion.
    • Synon: 所/PLACE Suǒ 所 "proper place", when used pregnantly on its own refers to the place where a thing basically belongs, where someone lives, and where something should be. This word was the most common word for a place in early literature. Quite frequently, the word refers not just to a place, but particularly to a building in a place.

      Syntactic words
    • nplace 其處often: same place; one's proper place; dé qí chù 得其處 "find one's proper place" absent, but 之其處.
    • n.red:adVallREDUP: at all places, everywhere
    • nab.post-Sthe place where S obtains or happens
    • nabderived, figurativevantage point, place that defines the perspective from which something is seen or interpretedCH
    • nabfigurativeabstract place, 'mental' placeBUDDH: point; feature, item(sometimes semantically very weak, functioning similar to a nominalizer: 'the fact that...; respect'; sphere (Skt. gocara, s. in 心行處 functional realm of the mind)
    • nabsocialsocial placeCH
    • npost-Nthe place where N was/is
    • npost-Sthe place where S happens
    地  dì OC: lils MC: di 19 Attributions

    Dì 地 is primarily a territory, and only by occasional extension the abstract location of something.

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 位/RANK Wèi 位 and the rarer liè 列 typically refer to relatively elevated official ranks only.
    • Contrast: 處/PLACE The most general word referring to the location of something is chù 處 which may refer to the location in which a thing happens to be at some point in time, or to the place where something belongs, and the word refers to both abstract and concrete spatial location.

      Syntactic words
    • nplaceCH
    • nablocation (also abstract location)
    • nab.post-nprothis placeDS
    • nabbuddhistBUDDH: stage of intellectual/cognitive accomplishment Sanskrit: bhūmi
    • nabemptyfree space
    • nabmetaphysicalthe decisive point (that determines an outcome)
    • viactmention the place; record the location of an event
    位  wèi OC: ɢrubs MC: ɦi 5 Attributions

    W4èi 位 sometimes comes to refer to the position in a terrain.

      Syntactic words
    • nabposition in the terrain, location
    • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: position of numbers represented by counting rods on the calculating surface. JZ 8.3: 各從其位 "each in accordance with its place on the calculating surface". JZ 1.16, comm. Li Chunfeng: 列位無常 "for the allocation of (numbers of) positions on the calculating surface there is no invariant pattern". Thus " position" in this technical sense may on be defined along varying parameters: on the one hand the position may be concrete, on the calculating surface, versus abstract in the system of decimals. On the other hand, whenever a mathematical procedure is defined in relation to any pattern of numbers inscribed on the calculating surface, any position in that pattern may be referred to as a wèi 位. In fact, the technical "decimal" meaning of 位 derives from the more general "placement" meaning of 位. It turns out that 等 is the sub-class of vertical fields or columns. This enables us to distinguish between 位 "abstract place" and 等 "vertical row, column in the abstract", and 行 "concrete column of numbers". Being a kind of 位, the 等 can be referred to as a 位 and often is in later texts.By extension, 位 may be used as a general term (by Li Chunfeng) to refer to the number that occupies the given position rather than to the position itelf, in which case the word is used as a non-contrastive variable.
    • nfigurativeplace, proper place
    • vtoNmiddle voicebe apportioned a proper place
    處所  chù suǒ OC: qhljas sqraʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ ʂi̯ɤ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPplace; also: the right place
    場  cháng OC: ɡrlaŋ MC: ɖi̯ɐŋ 3 Attributions

    Chǎng 場 refers specifically to the location for certain activities like threshing etc.

      Syntactic words
    • nopen area for sacrifices; open area for threshing; area where battles are fought, battleground
    間  jiān OC: kreen MC: kɣɛn 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nthe place inbetween > place
    • nabfigurativeroomCH
    所在  suǒ zài MC: srjoX tsojH OC: sqraʔ sɡɯɯs 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP(post-N)the whereabouts of the contextually determinate NDS
    • NPpost-Nthe whereabouts of NCH
    許  xǔ OC: hŋaʔ MC: hi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npostNthe place of N
    閒  jiān MC: kean OC: kreen 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npost-:N1+N2.+ZHIread jiān: within the space N1 and N2DS
    閑處  xián chù OC: ɢreen qhljas MC: ɦɣɛn tɕhi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPbuddhistBUDDH, unbusy place > a quiet place (suitable place for meditation), Skt. araNya
    其所  qí suǒ MC: gi srjoX OC: ɡɯ sqraʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabfigurativeone's proper place in societyCH
    方  fāng OC: paŋ MC: pi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 遠/DISTANT The clearly dominant term for distance in general is yuǎn 遠 (ant. jìn 近 "close").

      Syntactic words
    • nplaceLZ
    • npost-Narea
    面  miàn OC: mens MC: miɛn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nrelative location SJ 四面皆楚歌
    去處  qù chù OC: khas qhljas MC: khi̯ɤ tɕhi̯ɤ 0 Attributions
    • 唐五代語言詞典 Táng Wǔdài yǔyán cídiǎn A Dictionary of the Language of the Tang and Five Dynasties Periods ( JIANG/CAO 1997) p. 312

      Syntactic words
    • NPTang: place, location, site
    在  zài OC: sɡɯɯʔ MC: dzəi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabplaceLiao Dynasty: place
    容  róng OC: k-loŋ MC: ji̯oŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
    次  cì OC: snʰis MC: tshi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nplace where something takes place or is conducted
    地方所  dì fāng suǒ OC: lils paŋ sqraʔ MC: di pi̯ɐŋ ʂi̯ɤ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPplace; location