CONGRATULATE    祝賀

ADDRESS someone who is CELEBRATING SOMETHING so as to RITUALLY COMMUNICATE one's GOOD WISHES FOR him/her at THIS TIME.
SEND ONE'S BEST WISHES TOWISH SOMEONE GOOD LUCKWISH SOMEONE JOYDRINK TO SOMEONE'S HEALTHTOAST
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Hè 賀 (ant. diào 弔 "condolence) is a formal act of felicitation usually accompanied with the giving of presents. 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
祝賀 is the current modern word for congratulation. 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 ／
Antonym
  • CONSOLEADDRESS someone OR INTERACT with someone who is SUFFERING so as to COMMUNICATE one's SYMPATHY with him, and so as to HELP him.
Hypernym
  • ADDRESS　SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT.  (anc: 14/0, child: 23)
  • WRITE　PRODUCE a DOCUMENT. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
  • PRODUCE　ACT so as to DELIBERATELY CAUSE something to BEGIN to EXIST. (anc: 12/0, child: 17)
Other Hypernyms
  • ADDRESSnew-b2b104ff-6112-4947-b104-ff611229470d　SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT.  (anc: 13/0, child: 23)
  • SPEAK　ACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 32)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 96FF

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 360

    • Words (2 items)

    賀  hè OC: ɡaals MC: ɦɑ 26 Attributions

    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 Attributions

    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