CHARACTER    為人

ENDURING MENTAL FEATURE of a PERSON.
PERSONALITYNATUREDISPOSITIONTEMPERAMENTTEMPERMENTALITYMAKEUPFEATURESQUALITIESPROPERTIESTRAITSSPIRITESSENCEIDENTITYETHOSCOMPLEXIONTONEFEELFEELING
Modern Chinese Criteria
為人 性情 個性 性格 脾氣
Hyponym
  • TEXT　CHARACTERS IN A DOCUMENT. (anc: 5/0, child: 1)
Hypernym
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • Woerterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beitraege zu einer Kritik der Sprache ( MAUTHNER WP 1924) p. I.183

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.1253

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 1.984

    CHARAKTER

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 339

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 442

  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 772

  • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 62B

    • Words (3 items)

    為人  wéi rén OC: ɢʷal njin MC: ɦiɛ ȵin 87 Attributions

    Wéi rén 為人 and wéi wù 為物 the possibly conditioned and hardly alterable basic constitutive nature of thing.

      Syntactic words
    • NPabbeing a worthy person, being someone worthy of being called a personCH
    • NPab.post-NN's essential nature, N's basic character; natural tendency, natural featureCH
    • NPab.post-N:adStopicalised: as for somebody's basic characterCH
    • NPab.post-Nprnatural disposition; personality, personal nature (not countable)
    • NPadVby nature
    其為人也  qí wéi rén yě MC: gi hjweH nyin dzyoX OC: ɡɯ ɢʷal njin lalʔ 27 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabcharacter, personal characterCH
    • NPadVby nature he; as a person; being the person he isCH
    為人也  wéi rén yě MC: hjweH nyin dzyoX OC: ɢʷal njin lalʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadVby nature, by one's natural characterCH