LIGHTWEIGHT    輕輕１

Of SMALL WEIGHT, OR EASY TO LIFT.
EASY TO LIFTNOT HEAVYLIGHTWEIGHTEASY TO CARRYPORTABLE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for something being of little weight is qīng 輕, and I have not found any current near-synonyms.
Modern Chinese Criteria
輕 輕省 輕飄 輕飄飄 輕如鴻毛 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
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  • WEIGHT　DEGREE of FORCE by which a THING is being NATURALLY PULLED TOWARDS the EARTH. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • FORCE　TENDENCY TO MOVE OR CHANGE something. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • TENDENCY　FEATURE CAUSING a HUMAN, ANIMAL OR THING to ACT in a DEFINED way IN-SO-FAR-AS it is NOT PREVENTED by MORE STRONG CAUSES than this FEATURE. (anc: 4/0, child: 6)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 15.82

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.207

    • Words (2 items)

    輕  qìng OC: kheŋs MC: khiɛŋ
    輕  qīng OC: kheŋ MC: khiɛŋ 18 Attributions

    The standard word for something being of little weight is qīng 輕, and I have not found any current near-synonyms.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 重/HEAVY The dominant term is zhòng 重 (ant. qīng 輕 "light").
    • Epithet: 裘/CLOAK By far the most common word for a cloak or fur coat is qiú 裘, but the word refers specifically to the fur coat of which the fur turned towards the outside.
    • Epithet: 車 / 車/VEHICLE The current general term for a vehicle is chē 車, a term which also refers even more generally to all contraptions with wheels

      Syntactic words
    • nabactnon-severe treatment
    • vadNlight (cloaks etc)
    • vadNfigurativelightly armed (and therefore nimble-footed)
    • vadVlightly, easily, without compunction
    • vibe of comparatively little physical weight, light
    • vichangebecome lighter
    • vifigurative"light"
    • vt+prep+Nbe lighter thanCH
    • vtoNcausativecause to become light; cause to become lighter
    • vtoNcausativecause to be less substantial
    • vtoNputativeoccasionally in derived verbal sense: regard as light and easy to lift up
    區區  qū qū OC: kho kho MC: khi̯o khi̯o 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • n.redinsignificant parochialist