CONGRATULATE 祝賀
ADDRESS someone who is CELEBRATING SOMETHING so as to RITUALLY COMMUNICATE one's GOOD WISHES FOR him/her at THIS TIME.
Old Chinese Criteria
2. Qìng 慶 refers to a celebration of something regarded as felicitous, and the range of the occasions of such felicitations is somewhat broader than with hè 賀, including such things as lucky escapes and the like.
Modern Chinese Criteria
恭喜 is the current performative expression for "Congratulations!".
慶賀 (writ) refers to congratulations on a major public occasion.
道賀 (lit) focusses on the expression of congratulations through speech.
道喜 (lit) focusses on the verbal expression of joy.
祝福
慶
賀
拜
恭喜
慶祝
慶
賀年
拜年
恭賀新禧
祝壽
上壽
暖壽
拜壽
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
- 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci
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WU SANXING 2008)
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96FF - Using Chinese Synonyms
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GRACE ZHANG 2010)
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Words
賀 hè OC: ɡaals MC: ɦɑ 26 AttributionsWD
Hè 賀 (ant. diào 弔 "condolence) is a formal act of felicitation usually accompanied with the giving of presents.
- Word relations
- Ant: 弔 / 弔吊/MOURNING
Diào 弔/吊 (ant. qìng 慶 "congratulate") is to publicly express one's sorrow on the occasion of the death of someone outside one's own immedidate family.
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)congratulate a contextually determinate person
- vt(oN)congratulate the contextually retrievable NCH
- vtoNcongratulate (someone); offer ritual felicitations to
- vtoNPab{S}congratulate (someone on something)
- vttoN.+V[0]congratulate N upon V-ing
慶 qìng OC: khraŋs MC: khɣaŋ 6 AttributionsWD
Qìng 慶 refers to a celebration of something regarded as felicitous, and the range of the occasions of such felicitations is somewhat broader than with hè 賀, including such things as lucky escapes and the like.
- Word relations
- Assoc: 賞/REWARD
The current general word for rewarding is shǎng 賞 (ant. fá 罰 "punish" and zhū 誅 "punish").
- Syntactic words
- nabfelicitations; making congratulatory presents
- vt(oN)be delighted on behalf of someone and offer one's congratulations
- vtoNcongratulate
Existing SW for
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