ROUND  圓

CURVED IN ALL DIMENSIONS.
CIRCULARRING-SHAPEDDISK-SHAPEDHOOP-SHAPEDSPHERICALSPHEROIDALGLOBULARGLOBE-SHAPEDORB-SHAPEDCYLINDRICALBULBOUSROUNDEDROTUNDTECHNICAL ANNULARDISCOID
Antonym
  • CONCAVESHAPE RESEMLING the INSIDE of HALF a SPHERE.
    Hypernym
    • CURVEDSHAPE that is NOT STRAIGHT.
      • SHAPEAPPEARANCE of the PLACE something is in, as PERCEIVED by the EYES, DISREGARDING the SUBJECTIVITY of the APPEARANCE.
        • APPEARANCECLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES.
          • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
    See also
    • BALLPERFECTLY ROUND THING that CAN BE MOVED.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The current general word for roundness is yuán 圓.

      2. Tú 凸 refers to convexness.

      3. Āo 凹 refers to concaveness, but I have not found the word in pre-Buddhist texts (Southern Dynasties examples are found).

      4. Qiú 毬 refers to things of spherical roundness like balls, but the word is exceedingly rare in pre-Buddhist times. See BALL

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      圓

      渾圓

      滾圓

      溜圓

      滴溜兒圓

      滾瓜溜圓

      團團

      團

      橢圓

      長圓

      扁圓

      鴨蛋圓

      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. 12.81

      • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 163

      • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 268

      Words

      圓  yuán OC: ɢon MC: ɦiɛn 5 Attributions

      The current general word for roundness is yuán 圓.

        Syntactic words
      • nabstativeroundness
      • vadNround
      • vibe round
      圜  yuán OC: ɢʷen MC: ɦiɛn
      圓  yuán OC: ɢon MC: ɦiɛn 4 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • nsubject=nonrefthat which is round, the round
      • vibe circular, be round
      員  yuán MC: -- OC: ɢonCH 1 Attribution

        Syntactic words
      • vadN=圓 roundCH
      凸  tū OC: duud MC: duot 0 Attributions

      Tú 凸 refers to convexness.

        Syntactic words
      • viconvex, round on one side
      凹  aō OC: qriiw MC: ʔɣɛu 0 Attributions

      Āo 凹 refers to concaveness, but I have not found the word in pre-Buddhist texts (Southern Dynasties examples are found).

        Syntactic words
      毬  qiú OC: ɡu MC: gɨu 0 Attributions

      Qiú 毬 refers to things of spherical roundness like balls, but the word is exceedingly rare in pre-Buddhist times. See BALL

        Syntactic words

      Existing SW for

      Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: