BURDEN  負擔

What is HEAVY AND SHOULD:must be ENDURINGLY CARRIED.
LOADWEIGHTCARGOFREIGHT
Hypernym
  • HEAVYBIG WEIGHT.
    • WEIGHTDEGREE of FORCE by which a THING is being NATURALLY PULLED TOWARDS the EARTH.
      • FORCETENDENCY TO MOVE OR CHANGE something.
        • TENDENCYFEATURE CAUSING a HUMAN, ANIMAL OR THING to ACT in a DEFINED way IN-SO-FAR-AS it is NOT PREVENTED by MORE STRONG CAUSES than this FEATURE....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a burden is rèn 任. The word is often used figuratively to refer to burdens of duty. See DUTY.

2. Hè 荷 is a rarer word for whatever is borne on one's shoulders, and this word is also occasionally used in figurative senses.

3. Zhòng 重 can come to refer to something heavy one carries.

Modern Chinese Criteria
負擔

擔子

包袱

重負

重荷

重擔

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

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

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  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 18

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.147.109

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Words

任  rén OC: njɯm MC: ȵim 18 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nburden; load
  • nabfigurative(metaphorical) burden
  • nadNdesigned for heavy burdens
重  zhòng OC: doŋʔ MC: ɖi̯oŋ 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nabfigurativea metaphorically heavy burden
  • nsubjectwhat is heavy, a heavy load, a heavy burden
  • vadNburdensome
  • vtoNcausativeweigh (yourself) down
荷  hè OC: ɡlaalʔ MC: ɦɑ 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nburden, load (on one's back or shoulder)
  • nabfigurative(metaphorical) burden
儋  dān MC: tam OC: k-laamVK 1 Attribution

    Word relations
  • Object: 負/CARRY The most common word to refer to carrying things on one's back is fù 負; the word is also common in figurative senses.

    Syntactic words
  • nheavy load; burdenVK
厚  hòu OC: ɡoos MC: ɦu 0 Attributions

thick > heavy burden

    Syntactic words
  • vt(oN)putativeregard the contextually determinate N as a heavy burden

Existing SW for

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