BORDER AREA    邊疆

PLACE NEAR a BORDER AND TYPICALLY INSIDE ONE STATE.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most general word for the border area of a state is biān 邊, and this word refers to the general area up to the border. 2. Jìng 境, when referring to an area, describes a smaller area immediately surrounding the borderline. 3. Chuí 陲 refers to the large tract of land next to the state border. 4. Jiāng 疆 refers to any border between territories or fields of any kind, marked or unmarked, and the word can also refer to border regions. 5. Fān 藩 occasionally has a derived sense referring to a state border insofar as this border implies defensive arrangements, or perhaps also demarkation by plants, originally. 6. Bǐ 鄙 is an ancient word referring to a sparsely inhabited border region, with its attendant cultural peculiarities. See VULGAR
Modern Chinese Criteria
邊疆 邊境 邊隅 國境 國門 邊陲 疆埸 屏藩 refers to buffer territories against the barbarians. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Part of
  • BOUNDARYLIMIT which DIVIDES something into the INSIDE and OUTSIDE.
Hypernym
  • PLACE　PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 4/0, child: 39)
  • 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)
  • 韓非子同義詞研究 ( HANFEI TONGYI 2004) p. 70

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  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 81

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 45

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 54

  • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

    • Words (16 items)

    疆  jiāng OC: kaŋ MC: ki̯ɐŋ 20 Attributions

    Jiāng 疆 refers to any border between territories or fields of any kind, marked or unmarked, and the word can also refer to border regions.

      Syntactic words
    • ngeneral: border between any type of territory; border territory [the result of a systematic division of a large tract of land into fields (mǔ 畝)] [Jens]
    • nadNof the border area; on the border
    • viactmake boundaries; draw boundaries; demarcate territory
    • vtoNN=placesettle in the boundary area of N
    鄙  bǐ OC: prɯʔ MC: pi 14 Attributions

    Bǐ 鄙 is an ancient word referring to a sparsely inhabited border region, with its attendant cultural peculiarities. See VULGAR

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 邊/BORDER AREA The most general word for the border area of a state is biān 邊, and this word refers to the general area up to the border.

      Syntactic words
    • n[post-N][our] border-region
    • npost-Nborder area
    邊  biān OC: peen MC: pen 7 Attributions

    The most general word for the border area of a state is biān 邊, and this word refers to the general area up to the border.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 陲/BORDER AREA Chuí 陲 refers to the large tract of land next to the state border.
    • Assoc: 鄙/BORDER AREA Bǐ 鄙 is an ancient word referring to a sparsely inhabited border region, with its attendant cultural peculiarities. See VULGAR
    • Assoc: 境/BORDER AREA Jìng 境, when referring to an area, describes a smaller area immediately surrounding the borderline.

      Syntactic words
    • nborder area of a state or of the empire
    邊鄙  biān bǐ OC: peen prɯʔ MC: pen pi 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPpluralborder regions
    邊竟  biān jìng OC: peen kraŋs MC: pen kɣaŋ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP{PL}border area, borderland
    藩  fān OC: pan MC: pi̯ɐn 1 Attribution

    Fān 藩 occasionally has a derived sense referring to a state border insofar as this border implies defensive arrangements, or perhaps also demarkation by plants, originally.

      Syntactic words
    • nborder; border fence; frontiers
    疆場  jiāng cháng OC: kaŋ ɡrlaŋ MC: ki̯ɐŋ ɖi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPfrontier region
    疆易  jiāng yì MC: kjang yek OC: kaŋ leɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NP(= 疆埸) state borderLZ
    南國  nán guó MC: nom kwok OC: noom kʷɯɯɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPsouthern regions DS
    郊甸  jiāo diàn OC: kreew ɡ-liiŋs MC: kɣɛu den 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NP(post-N)border area; outlying area
    國界  guó jiè OC: kʷɯɯɡ kreeds MC: kək kɣɛi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPborder area
    鄂  è OC: ŋɡlaaɡ MC: ŋɑk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • n[post-N][our] border area
    • npost-Nborder area
    陲  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions

    Chuí 陲 refers to the large tract of land next to the state border.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 邊/BORDER AREA The most general word for the border area of a state is biān 邊, and this word refers to the general area up to the border.

      Syntactic words
    • nlarge area close to the border of a state
    隅  yú OC: ŋo MC: ŋi̯o 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nborder area
    域  yù OC: ɢʷrɯɡ MC: ɦɨk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nsystem of borders (and hence: region)
    境  jìng OC: kraŋʔ MC: kɣaŋ 0 Attributions

    Jìng 境, when referring to an area, describes a smaller area immediately surrounding the borderline.

      Word relations
    • Object: 入/ENTER The standard dominant word is rù 入(ant. chū 出 "go out") which refers to any kind of concrete or abstract entering of a thing into another. (CHECK!!)
    • Assoc: 邊/BORDER AREA The most general word for the border area of a state is biān 邊, and this word refers to the general area up to the border.

      Syntactic words
    • narea close to the border of a state