CONFESS    招供服

ADMIT one's SELF:own CRIMES OR MISTAKES.
OWN UPPLEAD GUILTYACCEPT THE BLAMETELL THE TRUTHTELL ALLMAKE A CLEAN BREAST OF ITCOME CLEANSPILL THE BEANSLET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAGGET SOMETHING OFF ONE'S CHESTLET ONFESS UP
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for confessing one's guilt is fú 服. 2. Shǒu 首 is refers to an unforced confession of responsibility and guilt. NB: Zhāo 招 is post-Buddhist (Song/Yuan) and refers to confessing in the context of formal legal procedings.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 GOVERNMENT/LAW 38. 服，泛指承認或坦白所做過的事情。 首，主動招供認罪。 招，在一定壓力下被動地招供認罪。
Modern Chinese Criteria
供認 is a current modern word for confession. 認罪 focusses on the crime confessed. 招認 (lit) refers in a slightly more literal way to confessing guilt. 招供 refers to confession in a legal context. 自供 focusses on the confession concerning one's own actions. 坦白 refers to a candid profession of guilt. 交代 "hand over" is a figurative idiom for owning up. 供認不諱 (prov) refers to a frank confession of guilt. 不打自招 is to make a spontaneous unforced confession. 供 招 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • ADMIT　ASSENT to what the LISTENER has in the PAST DECLARED to be TRUE OR what the LISTENER is BELIEVED to BELIEVE is TRUE. (anc: 14/0, child: 3)
  • ASSENT　SPEAK:say that one BELIEVES what ANOTHER in the PAST has SPEAK:said. (anc: 13/0, child: 3)
  • SPEAK　ACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 32)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 18.33

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    CONFESSIO

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p.

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.81.58

    AVEU.CONFESSION

    • Words (7 items)

    服  fú OC: bɯɡ MC: buk 2 Attributions

    The current general word for confessing one's guilt is fú 服.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNconfess (guilt)
    伏  fú OC: bɯɡ MC: buk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNconfess, confess to
    辭  cí OC: zɯ MC: zɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabtextwritten confession
    首  shǒu OC: qhljus MC: ɕɨu 0 Attributions

    Shǒu 首 is refers to an unforced confession of responsibility and guilt.

      Syntactic words
    • viconfess guilty to a crime
    • vtoNconfess guilty (to a crime) (NB: read in ancient falling tone!)
    招  zhāo OC: kljew MC: tɕiɛu 0 Attributions

    Zhāo 招 is post-Buddhist (Song/Yuan) and refers to confessing in the context of formal legal procedings.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNconfess; admit in court
    引慝  yǐn tè OC: liŋʔ nʰɯɯɡ MC: jin thək 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiactconfess one's guilt 《書‧大禹謨》：『帝初于〈歷山〉，往于田，日號泣于旻天，于父母，負罪引慝。』
    首伏  shǒu fú OC: qhljus bɯɡ MC: ɕɨu buk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiplead guilty