BORDER AREA  邊疆

PLACE NEAR a BORDER AND TYPICALLY INSIDE ONE STATE.
Hypernym
  • PLACEPART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
    • PARTOBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
  • BOUNDARYLIMIT which DIVIDES something into the INSIDE and OUTSIDE.
    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 ／

    Words

    疆  jiāng OC: kaŋ MC: ki̯ɐŋ 20 AttributionsWD

    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 AttributionsWD

    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 AttributionsWD

    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 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPpluralborder regions
    邊竟  biān jìng OC: peen kraŋs MC: pen kɣaŋ 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NP{PL}border area, borderland
    藩  fān OC: pan MC: pi̯ɐn 1 AttributionWD

    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
    國界  guó jiè OC: kʷɯɯɡ kreeds MC: kək kɣɛi 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPborder area
    疆場  jiāng cháng OC: kaŋ ɡrlaŋ MC: ki̯ɐŋ ɖi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPfrontier region
    郊甸  jiāo diàn OC: kreew ɡ-liiŋs MC: kɣɛu den 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NP(post-N)border area; outlying area
    南國  nán guó MC: nom kwok OC: noom kʷɯɯɡDS 1 AttributionWD
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    • NPsouthern regions DS
    疆易  jiāng yì MC: kjang yek OC: kaŋ leɡLZ 1 AttributionWD
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    • NP(= 疆埸) state borderLZ
    域  yù OC: ɢʷrɯɡ MC: ɦɨk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nsystem of borders (and hence: region)
    境  jìng OC: kraŋʔ MC: kɣaŋ 0 AttributionsWD

    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
    鄂  è OC: ŋɡlaaɡ MC: ŋɑk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • n[post-N][our] border area
    • npost-Nborder area
    陲  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 AttributionsWD

    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 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nborder area

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