GREEN  綠

COLOUR TYPICALLY RESEMBLING that of LEAVES IN SPRING.
Hypernym
  • COLOURAPPEARANCE of SURFACES which REFLECT OR ISSUE LIGHT, PERCEIVED USING the EYES.
    • APPEARANCECLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES.
      • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
See also
  • BLUECOLOUR of the SKY AND the DEEP SEA.
    黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
    HUANG JINGUI 2006

    ART 16.

    青，春日草木之色，又指礦物顏料青雘；青色通稱。

    藍，藍草，其葉或莖可制藍色染料；唐代始用為口語中藍色通稱。

    蒼，草之色；兼指深青色和淺青色。

    碧，青色玉石；喻指淺青色。

    綠，帛之青黃色；引申為青黃色。

    翠，青羽雀；喻指淺青色。

    蔥，可作菜或調味品的草本植物，喻指淺青色。

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    綠

    碧

    翠

    碧綠

    青綠

    青翠

    青蔥

    翠綠

    嬌綠

    油綠

    鮮綠

    綠油油

    綠茸茸

    碧油油

    嫩綠

    淡綠

    淺綠

    翠綠

    蔥綠

    蔥心兒綠

    水綠

    湖綠

    湖色

    蘋果綠

    深綠

    墨綠

    暗綠

    黛綠

    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. 15.68

    • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 186

    • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1843

    • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 51f

    • Kleine Schriften Deutsche Ostasienstudien ( UNGER 2009) p. 1-9

    • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 916

    • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1623

    • 語言學論集 ( ZHANG YONGYAN 1992) p. 100-135

      Zhang lists 25 Chinese words and compares adjacent languages.

    Words

    碧  bì OC: plaɡ MC: pɣɛk 3 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vadNOF THE COLOUR OF GREEN JADE> jade-green
    • viOF THE COLOUR OF GREEN JADE> be jade green
    翠  cuì OC: skhuds MC: tshi 3 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nadNkingfisher green
    • vibe kingfisher green
    綠  lǜ OC: rog MC: li̯ok 1 AttributionWD

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 枝/BRANCH The standard word for any kind of branch, large or small, is zhī 枝 (ant. gàn 幹 "trunk"), a word etymologically related to zhī 肢 "limb".

      Syntactic words
    • vadNbright green
    • vibright green
    青  qīng OC: tsheeŋ MC: tsheŋ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • vadNfresh green (and living)

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