ESPIONAGE    間諜間

SECRET INVESTIGATION of the SITUATION in OTHER STATES.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for spying is jiàn 間, and this is the general word for military intelligence used in SUN. 2. Dié 諜 refers to strictly professional and government-sponsored spying of any kind. 3. Tàn 探 refers to a spy-like operation which is not necessarily entirely secret. 4. Hòu 候 refers specifically to military espionage on the borders.
Modern Chinese Criteria
諜 間諜活動 間諜 情報員 諜報員 特務 特工 特 細作 坐探 探子 眼線 眼目 耳目 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • SPY　PERSON ACTING ESPIONAGE. (anc: 15/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • INVESTIGATE　TRY SYSTEMATICALLY to UNDERSTAND. (anc: 13/0, child: 5)
  • TRY　ACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING. (anc: 12/0, child: 9)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    SPY

    explorator refers to a person sent out to scout out conditions in an enemy country.

    speculator refers to real spies sent out to explore the intentions of the enemy as well as the prevailing enemy conditions.

    emissarius refers to a person sent on a secret mission, secret negotiations or other secret transactions in enemy country.

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1564

    • Words (9 items)

    閒  jiàn OC: kreens MC: kɣɛn
    間  jiàn OC: kreens MC: kɣɛn 9 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viactact as a spy
    • vtoNab{S}ascertain by espionage that S
    • vtoNobject=enemyspy on
    • vtoNobject=spymasteract as spy for
    諜  dié OC: leeb MC: dep 4 Attributions

    Dié 諜 refers to strictly professional and government-sponsored spying of any kind.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactformal espionage
    • v[adN]spy
    • vtoNspy on
    姦人  jiān rén OC: kraan njin MC: kɣan ȵin 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPspy
    探  tàn OC: kh-luum MC: thəm 1 Attribution

    Tàn 探refers to a spy-like operation which is not necessarily entirely secret.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNmanage to spy out
    斥  chì OC: khljaɡ MC: tɕhiɛk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNspy out (ZUO) [examine][CA]
    耳目  ěr mù OC: mljɯʔ muɡ MC: ȵɨ muk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPiact as spies
    詗  xiòng OC: qhʷeŋs MC: hiɛŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNinvestigate
    俔  qiàn OC: kheens MC: khen 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabactERYA: espionage
    候  hòu OC: ɡoos MC: ɦu 0 Attributions

    Hòu 候 refers specifically to military espionage on the borders.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNspy out