ARTEFACT 工品
THING PRODUCED by MAN.
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
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
Words (2 items)
藝 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
偽 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