COURTYARD    院子

PLACE BETWEEN HOUSES LACKING BUILDINGS.
QUADRANGLECLOISTERSQUAREPLAZAPIAZZACLOSEENCLOSUREYARD
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard term for a courtyard is tíng 廷 / 庭. In Western Zhou and Chunqiu times important public prosecutions usually take place in tíng 廷 / 庭 belonging to a palace or (possibly) to a temple. NB: The distinction between the meanings "courtyard" and "court" is often hard to make, although it is clear that in some cases the reference is definitely to the courtyard and not to the court as a whole.
Modern Chinese Criteria
院子 中庭 庭院 院落 天井 庭 庭院 庭除 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • PLACE　PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 4/0, child: 39)
  • PART　OBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 8)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 7.15

    • Words (5 items)

    庭  tíng OC: deeŋ MC: deŋ 7 Attributions

    The standard term for a courtyard is tíng 廷/庭. In Western Zhou and Chunqiu times important public prosecutions usually take place in tíng 廷/庭 belonging to a palace or (possibly) to a temple.

    • 古代文化词义集类辨考 ( HUANG 1995) p. 971 - 979

    • [100 page synonym dictionary which I have in Oslo and shall identify.CH] ( XIANG 1997) p. 647

    • 中國佛教百科全書 Zhōngguó fójiào bǎikē quánshū Encyclopedic Book Collection on Chinese Buddhism ( YANG WEIZHONG 2000) p. 170 - 180

      Syntactic words
    • ncourtyard; HF 8.6: courtyard in front of the táng 堂
    廷  tíng OC: deeŋ MC: deŋ 2 Attributions

    The standard term for a courtyard is tíng 廷/庭. In Western Zhou and Chunqiu times important public prosecutions usually take place in tíng 廷/庭 belonging to a palace or (possibly) to a temple.

    • 古代文化词义集类辨考 ( HUANG 1995) p. 971 - 979

    • [100 page synonym dictionary which I have in Oslo and shall identify.CH] ( XIANG 1997) p. 647

    • 中國佛教百科全書 Zhōngguó fójiào bǎikē quánshū Encyclopedic Book Collection on Chinese Buddhism ( YANG WEIZHONG 2000) p. 170 - 180

      Syntactic words
    • ncourtyard
    門庭  mén tíng MC: mwon deng OC: mɯɯn deeŋ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcourtyardLZ
    墀  chí OC: rlil MC: ɖi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nstairway; porch; courtyard
    • nabfigurativestairways leading up to something > path (to achieving something)
    院  yuàn OC: ɢons MC: ɦiɛn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncourtyard with walls around