TALL  高大

HIGH IN-RELATION-TO ORDINARY OTHER HUMANS.
BIGLARGEHUGETOWERINGCOLOSSALGIGANTICGIANTMONSTROUSLEGGY
Hypernym
  • BIGOF INTENSE SIZE OR DEGREE IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN.
    • SIZEQUANTITY of a DIMENSION.
      • QUANTITYDEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED.
        • DEGREEFEATURE of MORE or LESS....
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 ／

  • 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

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

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

    Syntactic words
  • vitall

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