PLACE 地方處
PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
SPACELOCATIONSITESPOTSETTINGPOSITIONSITUATIONAREAREGIONLOCALEVENUE
Hypernym
- PARTOBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT.
Hyponym
- BEHIND PLACE on the MORE DISTANT SIDE of a THING as SEEN FROM the HUMAN WHO SEES THIS THING.
- NEXT IMMEDIATELY BEHIND a SEQUENCE of THINGS.
- BELOW PLACE that is LOW IN-RELATION-TO something OTHER.
- BETWEEN RELATION of one PLACE to TWO PLACES IN EXACTLY CONTRARY DIRECTIONS, OR the PLACE that has THESE RELATIONS.
- CITY BIG PLACE that CONTAINS MANY STREETS AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, AND where INTENSELY MANY PEOPLE LIVE NEAR TOGETHER.
- CITIES PROPER NAME of the cities of ancient China.
- CAPITAL CITY CITY where the GOVERNMENT of a STATE BE-IN:is located.
- CORNER PLACE where EDGES OR SIDES of something MEET.
- COURTYARD PLACE BETWEEN HOUSES LACKING BUILDINGS.
- SKY PLACE in SPACE CONTAINING the SUN, the MOON and the STARS.
- IN FRONT PLACE BETWEEN SPEAKER AND something OR NEAR in the DIRECTION the SPEAKER LOOKING.
- INSIDE PLACE which BE-IN:is-in ANOTHER MORE BIG PLACE.
- CAMP PLACE where an ARMY DWELLS.
- NEST PLACE where a BIRD LIVES, SLEEPS AND REARS its OFFSPRING.
- OPEN AIR The PLACE OUTSIDE BUILDINGS.
- WAY LONG AND NARROW LEVEL PLACE ON which HUMANS GO TO PLACES OR TRAVEL TO DISTANT PLACES.
- SIDE PLACE to the LEFT OR RIGHT, AND NOT IN FRONT OR BEHIND.
- TERRITORY PLACE INSIDE DEFINED BOUNDARIES.
- FIELD SMALL TERRITORY to be TILLED by DEFINED PEASANTS....
- FOREST TERRITORY CONTAINING MANY TREES AND SHRUBS EVERYWHERE.
- ISLAND TERRITORY SURROUNDED by WATER on ALL SIDES.
- REGION LARGE TERRITORY of TERRITORIES....
- STATE TERRITORY GOVERNED by an INDEPENDENT RULER.[[STAAT]]...
- LANDSCAPE FEATURES of TERRITORY....
- SUBURB DWELL:inhabited TERRITORY NEAR a CITY.
- TIP PLACE at the END of a LONG THING.
- ARROWHEAD SHARP TIP of an ARROW.
- ABOVE PLACE HIGH IN-RELATION-TO OTHER PLACE.
- VILLAGE SMALL PLACE where MANY HUMANS, TYPICALLY PEASANTS, LIVE TOGETHER.
- WHERE IN WHAT PLACE.
- WORLD PLACE UNDER the SKY.[[WELT]]
- ROOM PLACE in which one DWELLS, SURROUNDED BY WALLS, in a BUILDING.
- MARKET PLACE CONTAINING MANY SHOPS that are MUTUALLY CLOSE.
- SOURCE The PLACE where a RIVER OR BROOK BEGINS.
- MIDDLE PLACE OR TIME at the SAME DISTANCE FROM BORDERS OR LIMITS SURROUNDING them, OR IN-RELATION-TO TWO SIDES.
- MIDNIGHT MIDDLE of the NIGHT.
- HOME PLACE where one DWELLS ENDURINGLY OR ORIGINALLY.
- UNIVERSE PLACE AND TIME which CONTAINS ALL ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE THINGS.
- HERE PLACE NEAR to the SPEAKER.
- PRESENCE FEATURE OF BEING HERE.
- EVERYWHERE IN ALL PLACES.
- BORDER AREA PLACE NEAR a BORDER AND TYPICALLY INSIDE ONE STATE.
- AWAY FROM HERE OR FROM THERE, DISTANT FROM one's SELF:own DWELLING.
- HARBOUR PLACE where SHIPS CAN DROP ANCHOR AND are PROTECTED, AND where ONE CAN LEAVE SHIPS AND ENTER the SHORE.
- HELL UNDERWORLD in which SOULS SUFFER AFTER DEATH.
- CROSSROADS PLACE WHERE TWO OR MORE WAYS are LINKED.
- REALM ABSTRACT PLACE.
- THERE IN THAT PLACE.
- SHADE PLACE LACKING LIGHT of SUN SURROUNDED BY PLACES WITH LIGHT OF SUN.
- TOP MOST HIGH PLACE in something.
- SUMMIT TOP of MOUNTAIN.
- UNDERWORLD FLACE FOR AFTERLIFE
- HELL UNDERWORLD in which SOULS SUFFER AFTER DEATH.
- CHURCHYARD
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.
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 ／
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 ／
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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.
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Words
所 suǒ OC: sqraʔ MC: ʂi̯ɤ 56 AttributionsWD
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 AttributionsWD
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 AttributionsWD
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 AttributionsWD
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
場 cháng OC: ɡrlaŋ MC: ɖi̯ɐŋ 3 AttributionsWD
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
處所 chù suǒ OC: qhljas sqraʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ ʂi̯ɤ 3 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPplace; also: the right place
間 jiān OC: kreen MC: kɣɛn 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nthe place inbetween > place
- nabfigurativeroomCH
所在 suǒ zài MC: srjoX tsojH OC: sqraʔ sɡɯɯsCH 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NP(post-N)the whereabouts of the contextually determinate NDS
- NPpost-Nthe whereabouts of NCH
方 fāng OC: paŋ MC: pi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
- 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
許 xǔ OC: hŋaʔ MC: hi̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- npostNthe place of N
閑處 xián chù OC: ɢreen qhljas MC: ɦɣɛn tɕhi̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPbuddhistBUDDH, unbusy place > a quiet place (suitable place for meditation), Skt. araNya
其所 qí suǒ MC: gi srjoX OC: ɡɯ sqraʔCH 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPabfigurativeone's proper place in societyCH
閒 jiān MC: kean OC: kreen 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- npost-:N1+N2.+ZHIread jiān: within the space N1 and N2DS
容 róng OC: k-loŋ MC: ji̯oŋ 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
次 cì OC: snʰis MC: tshi 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nplace where something takes place or is conducted
面 miàn OC: mens MC: miɛn 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nrelative location SJ 四面皆楚歌
去處 qù chù OC: khas qhljas MC: khi̯ɤ tɕhi̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
- 唐五代語言詞典 Táng Wǔdài yǔyán cídiǎn A Dictionary of the Language of the Tang and Five Dynasties Periods
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JIANG/CAO 1997)
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312
- Syntactic words
- NPTang: place, location, site
地方所 dì fāng suǒ OC: lils paŋ sqraʔ MC: di pi̯ɐŋ ʂi̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- NPplace; location
在 zài OC: sɡɯɯʔ MC: dzəi 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nabplaceLiao Dynasty: place
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