ANCIENT   

INTENSELY PAST
Old Chinese Criteria
NB: A LARGE NUMBER OF LEXEMES FROM "PAST" NEED TO BE MOVED HERE.
Hypernym
  • PAST　PERIOD BEFORE NOW. (anc: 4/0, child: 5)
  • TIME　ABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN. (anc: 3/0, child: 11)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)

Words (6 items)

古  gǔ OC: kaaʔ MC: kuo̝ 84 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Object: 學/DOCTRINE
  • Object: 法/IMITATE Fǎ 法 refers to modelling oneself on distant ideals, typical abstract, or historically placed in the distant mythical past.

    Syntactic words
  • n[adN1.]adN2古之人曰 "the ancients said": the N2 of ancient times (with or without explicit 之)CH
  • n[adN]what is ancient: matters of antiquity, ancient affairsCH
  • n[adN]N=human, plural古之所大 "what the ancients found important": the ancients
  • n[adNab]Nab=teachingslessons of antiquityCH
  • nabantiquity, ancient times; ancient practice
  • nadSin ancient times
玄古  xuán gǔ MC: hwen kuX OC: ɡʷeen kaaʔ 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPmystical antiquityCH
  • VPadNof mystical antiquityCH
古昔  gǔ xī xí，cuò MC: kuX sjek OC: kaaʔ sqaɡ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPancient textsCH
古者  gǔ zhě MC: kuX tsyaeX OC: kaaʔ kljaʔ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPpluralthe ancientsTWH
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    Syntactic words
  • NPancient textsCH
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    Syntactic words
  • VPadNof mystical antiquityCH