LIGHTWEIGHT  輕輕１

Of SMALL WEIGHT, OR EASY TO LIFT.
EASY TO LIFTNOT HEAVYLIGHTWEIGHTEASY TO CARRYPORTABLE
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Hypernym
  • WEIGHTDEGREE of FORCE by which a THING is being NATURALLY PULLED TOWARDS the EARTH.
    • FORCETENDENCY TO MOVE OR CHANGE something.
      • TENDENCYFEATURE 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.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
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 ／

  • 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

輕  qìng OC: kheŋs MC: khiɛŋ
輕  qīng OC: kheŋ MC: khiɛŋ 17 AttributionsWD

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 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • n.redinsignificant parochialist

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