SALARY 工資祿
MONEY GIVEN to someone who WORKS for his/her WORK.
Old Chinese Criteria
2. Gǔ 穀 refers specifically to salary in the form of grain, which was the most current form of payment, and the word sometimes refers in a generalised way to salaries of any kind.
3. Fèng 奉/俸 is a formal and polite word for a salary, and the term became current from Han times onwards.
黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUMAN BODY 12.
祿,最早的報酬之稱,用於先秦分封制;用於後世秩俸制則具莊重色彩。
俸,漢以來報酬的通稱。
秩,按官吏等級給於的報酬。
穀,因報酬用穀物支付,曾作為官吏報酬的代稱。
“ 薪 ” 是薪水的省稱,宋時即出現,指額外的補貼,至晚近才將工資、薪金合為一體。
Modern Chinese Criteria
報酬
酬勞
收入
工錢
工薪
薪資
薪水
薪金
薪給
薪俸
薪
月薪
月廩
軍餉
餉
俸祿
官俸
傣
祿
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
- A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages
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BUCK 1988)
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11.78 - Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien
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DOEDERLEIN 1840)
p.
SALARY
lucrum refers to gain deserved and gained by oneself.
emolumentum refers to gain falling to one's share without any exertion of one's own commensurate with that gain.
quaestus refers to the steadily continued gains of a regular occupation, like "earnings".
compendium refers typically to a single gain of a considerable amount, a sudden non-standard income.
- 韓非子同義詞研究
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HANFEI TONGYI 2004)
p.
96 - 論衡同義詞研究
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LUNHENG TONGYI 2004)
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31 - Using Chinese Synonyms
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GRACE ZHANG 2010)
p.
154 - 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典
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HONG CHENGYU 2009)
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123
Words
祿 lù OC: b-rooɡ MC: luk 48 AttributionsWD
The general word for apanages, emoluments or salaries received by any person of high status is lù 祿.
- Word relations
- Object: 干/SEEK
Gān 干 refers to the abstract pursuit of aims in life. - Contrast: 爵/RANK
Jué 爵 refers specifically to noble rank. - Assoc: 官/OFFICE
The standard and very current general word for any elevated bureaucratic office, civil or military, is guān 官 (the original meaning of which refers to the building housing the office-holders office). - Assoc: 爵/RANK
Jué 爵 refers specifically to noble rank. - Assoc: 賞/REWARD
The current general word for rewarding is shǎng 賞 (ant. fá 罰 "punish" and zhū 誅 "punish"). - Oppos: 德/VIRTUE
The current general term for salient features and principles of charismatic moral integrity and generosity is dé 德, when used as a term of ethical evalutation; but this word has many other philosophically important meanings. - Oppos: 身/PERSON
Shēn 身 regularly refers to the embodied person, as something to be cultivated, and as something to be morally careful about, but the word is originally widely used to refer to the physical body as such being at times hard to distinguish from the figurative use discussed in this group. The word is very often reflexive. - Oppos: 道/METHOD
Dào 道 is a way of being, of functioning, as well as a way of doing things, and this Way may be either exoteric or esoteric.
- Syntactic words
- nabsocialpower to award emoluments, power over official apanages
- nadN(minister) with emoluments, salaried, enjoying the benefits of a formal salary; (N=place:) carrying emoluments
- nmsalary, official stipend, public emoluments, public remuneration; salary levels
- nmfigurativesalary
- vichangeget to enjoy stable emoluments
- vimiddle voiceenjoy stable emoluments
- vtoNhave N as one's emolumentLZ
- vtoNcausativecause to have stable official emoluments
爵祿 jué lù OC: tsewɡ b-rooɡ MC: tsi̯ɐk luk 12 AttributionsWD
- Word relations
- Contrast: 官職/OFFICIAL
Guān zhí 官職 generally refers to high officials.
- Syntactic words
- NP(post-N)definiteemoluments of rank or salariesTWH
- NPnonreferentialemoluments of rank or salaries of any kind
- VPt(oN)confer ranks and salaries on a contextually determinate N
- VPt[oN]confer salaries on people
食 shí OC: ɢljɯɡ MC: ʑɨk 6 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nnonreferentiallivelihood; level of income, salary in general, on the basis of which one survives; living standards
- viactdraw a salary
穀 gǔ OC: kooɡ MC: kuk 3 AttributionsWD
Gǔ 穀 refers specifically to salary in the form of grain, which was the most current form of payment, and the word sometimes refers in a generalised way to salaries of any kind.
- Syntactic words
- viputativeconsider one's salary as the important thing; be solely concerned with the grain one gets as a salary
奉 fèng OC: boŋʔ MC: bi̯oŋ
奉俸 Click here to add pinyin OC: MC: 2 AttributionsWD
Fèng 奉 is a formal word for a salary gratefully received.
- Syntactic words
- napanage, stipend
入 rù OC: njub MC: ȵip 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- nincome, provenue
升斗 shēng dǒu OC: qhljɯŋ tooʔ MC: ɕɨŋ tu 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPmeven the slightest income HANSHU
賞祿 shǎng lù OC: lʰaŋʔ b-rooɡ MC: ɕi̯ɐŋ luk 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPnonreferentialrewards or emoluments of any kind
養祿 yǎng lù OC: laŋʔ b-rooɡ MC: ji̯ɐŋ luk 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPmstipend
穀祿 gǔ lù MC: kuwk luwk OC: kooɡ b-rooɡLZ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPsalaryLZ
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