DISAPPEAR 不見
BECOME LACKING:absent.
VANISHPASS FROM SIGHTBE LOST TO VIEW/SIGHTRECEDE FROM VIEWFADE (AWAY)MELT AWAYCLEARDISSOLVEDISPERSEEVAPORATEDEMATERIALIZELITERARY EVANESCE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The dominant word for ceasing to exist is wáng 亡 (and there is no early evidence for the reading wú 亡 ).
2. Mò 沒 "go under" is a dramatic verb referring to the disappearance of something.
3. Xí 息 "be extinguished" is a politely periphrastic way of referring to the disappearance of something.
4. Què 闕 can refer to the disappearance of a practice.
Modern Chinese Criteria
不見
遺失
丟失
丟掉
散失
散亡
丟
少
掉
不翼而飛
失蹤
走失
下落不明
不知下落
不知去向
不見蹤影
無影無蹤
蹤跡全無
音信全無
杳無音信
音信杳然
杳如黃鶴
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
- DEGENERATE DISAPPEAR through CHANGE into what is MORE BAD. (anc: 16/0, child: 0)
Antonym
- EXISTBE-IN the UNIVERSE of SPACE AND TIME.
See also
- LACKSITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE.
Hypernym
Words (18 items)
亡 wáng OC: maŋ MC: mi̯ɐŋ 15 Attributions
The dominant word for ceasing to exist is wáng 亡 (and there is no early evidence for the reading wú 亡).
- Word relations
- Result: 衰/DECLINE
- Ant: 存/PERSIST
The current general word for the persistence of something is cún 存(ant. wáng 亡 "cease to exist"). - Contrast: 死/DIE
The dominant general word is sǐ 死 (ant. shēng 生"be alive"), and this can refer to the death of plants as well as animals or men. - Assoc: 闕/DISAPPEAR
Què 闕 can refer to the disappearance of a practice.
- Syntactic words
- nabeventdisappearance
- vadNdisappeared; lost
- vichangecease to exist
- viresultativebe nowhere to be foundCH
沒 mò OC: mɯɯd MC: muot 12 Attributions
Mò 沒 "go under" is a dramatic verb referring to the disappearance of something.
- Syntactic words
- vichangego under (of the sun etc)
- vifigurativeGO UNDER> disappear, be no more; be forgotten
- vtoNsee disappear, have disappear for one ???
滅 miè MC: mjiet OC: med 5 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vimiddle voice: be destroyed> disappearCH
- vtoNcausativecause to disappear; expunge; cause to become invisibleCH
去 qù MC: khjoH OC: khas 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nab.post-NdisappearanceCH
- vichangedisappearCH
流亡 liú wáng OC: ru maŋ MC: lɨu mi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPiresultativemigrate disappear
銷亡 xiāo wáng MC: sjew mjang OC: smew maŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPimelt away so as to disappear altogetherCH
闕 què, quē OC: khod MC: khi̯ɐt 1 Attribution
Què 闕 can refer to the disappearance of a practice.
- Word relations
- Assoc: 亡/DISAPPEAR
The dominant word for ceasing to exist is wáng 亡 (and there is no early evidence for the reading wú 亡).
- Syntactic words
- vichangefall into disuse, come to be absent; come to disappear
隱形 yǐn xíng OC: qɯnʔ ɡeeŋ MC: ʔɨn ɦeŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPichangebecome invisible
滅去 miè qù OC: med khaʔ MC: miɛt khi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPichangedissolve into nothing; disappear
入 rù MC: nyip OC: njub 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- nabdisappearanceCH
息 xī OC: sqlɯɡ MC: sɨk 1 Attribution
Xí 息 "be extinguished" is a politely periphrastic way of referring to the disappearance of something.
- Syntactic words
- vichangebe extinguished; disappear
滅 miè MC: mjiet OC: med 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vimiddle voice: be destroyed> disappearCH
不見 bù jiàn MC: pjut kenH OC: pɯʔ keens 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPidisappearDS
絕祀 jué sì MC: -- ziX OC: dzod sɢlɯʔ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
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- Syntactic words
- vichangedisappearCH
Click here to add pinyin MC: OC: 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vimiddle voice: be destroyed> disappearCH
不現 bù xiàn OC: pɯʔ ɡeens MC: pi̯ut ɦen 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPichangedisappear; cease to manifest itself
化滅 huà miè OC: hŋʷraals med MC: hɣɛ miɛt 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPiresultativedisappear through a transformation