WALL 牆壁
SLIM, AND TYPICALLY HIGH VERTICAL PART of a BUILDING, TYPICALLY SURROUNDING a ROOM, OR USED FOR SHOWING a BOUNDARY OR PROTECTING a PLACE INSIDE.
黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
Modern Chinese Criteria
Hyponym
- CITY WALL FORTIFYING WALL ENCIRCLING a CITY. (anc: 4/0, child: 0)
- SCREEN THIN WALL which CAN be MOVED, OR WALL WHICH is USED to BLOCK the WIND OR LOOKING. (anc: 4/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
- Not defined (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
- PRIME (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
- (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
WALL
murus refers to any sort of wall, merely with reference to its form, without reference to its use.
paries refers specifically to the outer walls in a house, or the walls within a house.
moenia refers to the city walls, used as a defense against an enemy.
munimenta refers to the system of walls in a fortress.
maceria is the outer wall of a compound to mark the boundaries and to exclude thieves, and the word may refer to a garden wall.
parietina is a wall that has crumbled and lies in ruins.
Words (18 items)
牆 qiáng OC: sɡaŋ MC: dzi̯ɐŋ
牆 qiáng OC: sɡaŋ MC: dzi̯ɐŋ 17 Attributions
- Word relations
- Subject: 壞/COLLAPSE
- Syntactic words
- nnonreferentialany wall of any kind
- nspecificalso墻:high wall round a house or in a house; wall between the buildings belonging to one single compound cf. 宮牆,宮墻
- vibuild a wall, establish a partition/wallCH
- vtoNbuild a wall around
城郭 chéng guō OC: djeŋ kʷaaɡ MC: dʑiɛŋ kɑk 15 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPdefinitecity walls of all kinds
- NPnonreferentialcity walls of all kinds; outer or inner city walls
垣 yuán OC: ɢon MC: ɦi̯ɐn 10 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nlittle wall surrounding a garden, field or large dwelling, enclosure
壁 bì OC: peeɡ MC: pek 7 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nthe outer four walls defining a house; in military strategy: a temporary wall or blockade erected as a defense against the enemy
- nadVin a wall 壁藏之 "hide in the wall" SHIJI, Rulinliezhuan
牆垣 qiáng yuán OC: sɡaŋ ɢon MC: dzi̯ɐŋ ɦi̯ɐn 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPnonreferentialwalls
牆壁 qiáng bì OC: sɡaŋ peeɡ MC: dzi̯ɐŋ pek 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPwall
城 chéng OC: djeŋ MC: dʑiɛŋ 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nwall (defending China against the barbarians etc)
墉 yōng OC: k-loŋ MC: ji̯oŋ 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- n1. high wall surrounding a house; 2. city wall
阫 péi MC: -- OC: -- 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- nwallCH
蕭牆 xiāo qiáng OC: sɯɯw sɡaŋ MC: seu dzi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPLY 16.1: wall outside a large building preventing people from looking into the gates, also to prevent draft, according to ancient commentators. There are extensive commentaries on this, mostly speculative.
胥餘 xū yú MC: sjo yo OC: sqa la 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPgarden wallCH
距闉 jù yīn MC: gjoX 'jin OC: -- qin 1 Attribution
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- NPearth rampart built outside of the city walls in order to attack themDS
培 pǒu OC: bɯʔ MC: bu 1 Attribution
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- nback wall of a house
堵 dǔ OC: k-laaʔ MC: tuo̝ 1 Attribution
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- nunit of length for a wall
版 bǎn OC: praanʔ MC: pɣan 1 Attribution
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- npluralplanks to serve as a defensive wall
環堵 huán dǔ MC: hwaen tuX OC: ɡʷraan k-laaʔ 1 Attribution
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- NPwalls round one's homeCH
雉堞 zhì dié OC: diʔ leeb MC: ɖi dep 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPparapet; small protective wall
埒 liè OC: rod MC: liɛt 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nrare: low surrounding wall of a garden or small irrigation dyke