TODAY    今天今日

The DAY NOW.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard term for "today" is jīn rì 今日.
Modern Chinese Criteria
當日 當天 即日 今日 今天 今兒 今兒個 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • DAY　PERIOD FROM MORNING TO EVENING OR FROM MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • PERIOD　TIME CONSISTING of a LIMITED SEQUENCE of MOMENTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 20)
  • TIME　ABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN. (anc: 3/0, child: 11)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.47

    • Words (4 items)

    今日  jīn rì OC: krɯm mljiɡ MC: kim ȵit 44 Attributions

    The standard term for "today" is jīn rì 今日.

      Syntactic words
    • NP(adS)today (e.g. we should do the aformentioned thing)
    • NP(adV)om?? today (with omitted V)
    • NPabtimetoday
    • NPadNtoday's
    • NPadStoday
    • NPadSpluralthese days
    • NPadVtoday
    • NPadV.postN{SUBJ}today (after the subject and before the predicate)
    今夜  jīn yè OC: krɯm k-laɡs MC: kim jɣɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadVduring the night of today > tonight
    此日  cǐ rì OC: tsheʔ mljiɡ MC: tshiɛ ȵit 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadNof today
    • NPadV.postN{SUBJ}today
    不移日  bù yí rì OC: pɯʔ k-lal mljiɡ MC: pi̯ut jiɛ ȵit 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VP[adN.]adSbefore the day was out, on the same day