TALL    高大

HIGH IN-RELATION-TO ORDINARY OTHER HUMANS.
BIGLARGEHUGETOWERINGCOLOSSALGIGANTICGIANTMONSTROUSLEGGY
Modern Chinese Criteria
高大 魁梧 魁偉 魁岸 偉岸 嵬然 巍然 巋然 巍峨 崴嵬 巍巍 嵬嵬 峨峨 崔崔 崔嵬 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • BIG　OF INTENSE SIZE OR DEGREE IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN. (anc: 7/0, child: 15)
  • SIZE　QUANTITY of a DIMENSION. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • QUANTITY　DEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.58

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 358

    • Words (7 items)

    長  cháng OC: ɡrlaŋ MC: ɖi̯ɐŋ 8 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabfeaturetallnessLZ
    • vadNunusually tall
    • vibe tall
    • vt+Nbe N-measure tall
    長大  zhǎng dà OC: krlaŋʔ daads MC: ʈi̯ɐŋ dɑi 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiresultativegrow so as to become very big
    長短  cháng duǎn MC: drjang twanX OC: ɡrlaŋ toonʔ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPab{nab1ant.nab2}featuretallness, statureLZ
    長大  cháng dà OC: ɡrlaŋ daads MC: ɖi̯ɐŋ dɑi 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPsubjectmen of tall stature
    • VPibe of very big stature; huge
    頯  kuí MC: gwij OC: ɡʷrɯw 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vifigurative(of forehead) be high and prominentCH
    長巨  zhǎng jù MC: drjang gjoX OC: krlaŋʔ ɡaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPivery tallLZ
    高  gāo OC: koow MC: kɑu 0 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 大/BIG The general word is dà 大 (ant. xiǎo 小 "small").

      Syntactic words
    • vitall