BURDEN    負擔

What is HEAVY AND SHOULD:must be ENDURINGLY CARRIED.
LOADWEIGHTCARGOFREIGHT
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 ／
Hypernym
  • HEAVY　BIG WEIGHT. (anc: 7/0, child: 1)
  • WEIGHT　DEGREE of FORCE by which a THING is being NATURALLY PULLED TOWARDS the EARTH. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • FORCE　TENDENCY TO MOVE OR CHANGE something. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • 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 (5 items)

    任  rén OC: njɯm MC: ȵim 21 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-laam 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