ARTEFACT    工品

THING PRODUCED by MAN.
ARTIFACTCOMMODITYMANUFACTURED ARTICLECREATIONINVENTION(PRODUCTS) GOODSWARESMERCHANDISEPRODUCE
Old Chinese Criteria
[BASIC/MARGINAL] NB: This synonym group is needed for the taxonomy of the system and is not suggested by any current Chinese usage. 1. The philosophically important general term for something man-made and in this sense artificial is wěi 偽. [MARGINAL] 2. Yì 藝 is sometimes used to refer to an artefact, perhaps insofar as this is the result of special skill. [MARGINAL]
Modern Chinese Criteria
工品 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
Hyponym
  • BUILDING BIG ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR HUMANS OR ANIMALS to DWELL in OR BE-IN, or MOVE ON. (anc: 5/0, child: 23)
  • DOCUMENT ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR CONTAINING WRITING. (anc: 5/0, child: 15)
  • FENCE TIMBER ARTEFACT which SHOWS the BOUNDARY of a TYPICALLY SMALL TERRITORY and HINDERS OTHERS from ENTERING that TERRITORY. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • GARMENT CLOTH ARTEFACT WORN by HUMANS IN ORDER TO CAUSE THEMSELVES TO FEEL COMFORTABLE.  (anc: 5/0, child: 17)
  • MIRROR FLAT ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR CAUSING one to be ABLE SEE ONESELF in it. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • MONEY STANDARD SYSTEM of ARTEFACTS, PRODUCED CONFORMING to a LAW, AND USED EVERYWHERE IN A SOCIETY, CONFORMING to DEFINED RULES, to EXCHANGE ALL OTHER THINGS for. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TOOLS USED FOR PRODUCING MUSIC. (anc: 5/0, child: 6)
  • NET ARTEFACT of TIED THREADS, CONTAINING MANY BIG HOLES BETWEEN the THREADS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • PICTURE ARTEFACT on a FLAT SURFACE OFTEN:typically INTENDED to DEPICT or to COMMUNICATE something. (anc: 5/0, child: 6)
  • SYMBOL ARTEFACT USED FOR REFERRING to something INTENSELY DIFFERENT from that ARTEFACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 13)
  • TARGET SMALL ARTEFACT one TRIES to SHOOT INTO in ARCHERY ETC.. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • THREAD INTENSELY LONG THIN ARTEFACT PRODUCED USING COTTON, WOOL, SILK ETC, TYPICALLY USED FOR SEWING OR TYING UP THINGS ETC.. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • TOY ARTEFACT USED FOR PLAYING with. (anc: 5/0, child: 2)
  • STOVE ARTEFACT USED TO COOK OR CAUSE ROOMS to BECOME WARM. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • CLOTH ARTEFACT TYPICALLY PRODUCED by WEAVING OR KNITTING, SOMETIMES USED FOR PRODUCING GARMENTS. (anc: 5/0, child: 9)
  • FURNITURE ARTEFACTS OFTEN PRODUCED USING TIMBER OR BAMBOO FOR CAUSING ROOMS to BECOME APPROPRIATE DWELLINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 6)
  • TOOL ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD. (anc: 5/0, child: 53)
  • ORNAMENT ARTEFFACT USED so as to PUT it on something FOR EMBELLISHING this thing. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • PAPER FLAT LIGHTWEIGHT THIN ARTEFACT PRODUCED USING GROUND TIMBER, USED FOR WRITING ON it. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • PILLOW OFTEN (BUT NOT ALWAYS!) SOFT ARTEFACT USED TO SUPPORT the HEAD of SLEEPING HUMANS. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • MASK ARTEFACT RESEMBLING a FACE AND WORN ON the FACE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • BRICK BURNT CLAY STONE USED FOR BUILDING BUILDINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
  • SADDLE ARTIFACT one PUTS ON a HORSE FOR SITTING AND RIDING ON the HORSE. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • MONUMENT PUBLIC SYMBOLIC ARTEFACT which CELEBRATES a PERSON OR EVENT. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
  • CONTAINER ARTEFACT PRODUCED TO CONTAIN THINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • FRAME ARTEFACT USED TO SURROUND AND HOLD UP A THING. (anc: 5/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • THING CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • OBJECT [NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • PRIME  (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 6.520

  • Words (2 items)

      yì OC: ŋeds MC: ŋiɛi 1 Attribution

    Yì 藝 is sometimes used to refer to an artefact, perhaps insofar as this is the result of special skill.

      Syntactic words
    • nartefact, skillful product
      wěi OC: ŋgʷals MC: ŋiɛ 1 Attribution

    The philosophically important general term for something man-made and in this sense artificial is wěi 偽.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 性/BASIC NATURE The current and quite dominant word for the stable inherent and prototypically innate features of something is xìng 性 (ant. wéi 為 "what belongs to human action", and wěi 偽"artificial").

      Syntactic words
    • nartefact; something artificial and not natural
    • nabactartificial effortCH
    • viXUN: be not natural but an artefact, be artificial
    • vtoNpassivebe worked on artificially