BACHELOR  光棍曠夫

MALE ADULT who is NOT MARRIED. 
SINGLECELIBATE
Antonym
Hypernym
  • ADULTHUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME.
    • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. There are no competing terms for "bachelor" in classical Chinese. The current word is kuàng fū 曠夫 (opp. yuàn nu# 怨女 "unmarried woman of marrigeable age").

Modern Chinese Criteria
光棍

未娶

單身漢

打光棍兒

中饋猶虛

猶虛中饋

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

Words

曠夫  kuàng fū OC: khʷaaŋs pa MC: khɑŋ pi̯o 3 AttributionsWD

There are no competing terms for "bachelor" in classical Chinese. The current word is kuàng fū 曠夫 (opp. yuàn nu# 怨女"unmarried woman of marrigeable age").

    Syntactic words
  • NP{vadN}bachelor of marriageable age

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