RUN  

WALK USING JUMPING STEPS.
SPRINTRACEDARTRUSHDASHHASTENHURRYSCURRYSCAMPERBOLTFLYGALLOPCAREERCHARGESHOOTHURTLESPEEDZOOMGO LIKE LIGHTNINGGO HELL-BENT FOR LEATHERGO LIKE THE WINDGO LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELLJOGTROTINFORMAL TEARPELTSCOOTHOTFOOT ITLEG ITBELTZIPWHIPBOMBHIGHTAIL ITBARREL
Hypernym
  • WALKMOVE across the FLOOR>ground USING one's LEGS.
    • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
      • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2.
        • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for running is zǒu 走 (ant. bù 步 "go along without running").

2. Bēn 奔 refers to running fast, often in order to avoid a dangerous situation. See also FLEE.

3. Bèn 奔 refers to running fast in order to avoid a dangerous situation, and in a certain direction, particularly in order to seek refuge. See FLEE

NB: Pǎo 跑 is post-Han (TANG).

Modern Chinese Criteria
奔波 / 奔忙 / 奔走







奔跑

跑步

小跑

奔走



狂奔

飛奔

飛跑

快跑

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. 10.46

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1343

    行,走,奔,跑

  • 跟我學同義詞 ( CAI SHAOWEI 2010) p. 58

  • 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.384

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 318

Words

  zǒu OC: tsooʔ MC: tsu 20 AttributionsWD

The current general word for running is zǒu 走 (ant. bù 步 "go along without running").

    Word relations
  • Ant: 去/LEAVE The general word for leaving one place for another is qù 去 (ant. liú 留"remain").
  • Epithet: 獸/BEAST Shòu 獸 tends to refer to dangerous mammals above a certain size that are typically imagined as running (zǒu shòu 走獸), and sometimes as liable to bite.
  • Assoc: 奔 / 奔/HURRY Bēn 奔 refers to running fast, often in order to avoid a dangerous situation. See also FLEE.
  • Assoc: 馳/HURRY Chí 馳 and the somewhat rarer zòu 驟 refer to racing along, typically on horseback.

    Syntactic words
  • nab[.post-N]N=own[his own] runningCH
  • nabdispositionrunning; running speedLZ
  • nsubjectwhat can run
  • vadNN=nonrefprefix forming generic concepts 走獸 beasts in general
  • vadVas one is running, in the processor runningCH
  • viactbe busy running about; run about
  • vt+Nrun the distance NTWH
  • vtoNrun towards
  • vtoNcausativemake somebody run (e.g. horses), put through their paces (horses)
奔走  bēn zǒu OC: pɯɯn tsooʔ MC: puo̝n tsu 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactrun officiously back and forth, as ordered; be on the run
  • VPifigurativerun officiously back and forth
  dìng OC: deeŋʔ MC: deŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • viactJiyun: read ti3ng: run fast
奔突  bēn tū OC: pɯɯn duud MC: puo̝n duot 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactrush recklessly forward; run around
奔赴  bēn fù OC: pɯɯn phoɡs MC: puo̝n phi̯o 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactrun along
奔馳  bēn chí OC: pɯɯn rlal MC: puo̝n ɖiɛ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactrun fast
走入  zǒu rù OC: tsooʔ njub MC: tsu ȵip 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNresultativerun into
  bēn 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadNgallopping; runningCH
  biāo OC: pew MC: piɛu 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadVin fast strides, running fast [pronunciation ?? biāo !]
  bó OC: bruuɡ MC: bɣɔk 0 AttributionsWD

Pǎo 跑 is post-Han (TANG) "run".

    Syntactic words
奔入  bēn rù OC: pɯɯn njub MC: puo̝n ȵip 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNresultativerun so as to enter> run ito
絡繹  luò yì OC: ɡ-raaɡ laɡ MC: lɑk jiɛk
絡驛  luò yì OC: ɡ-raaɡ laɡ MC: lɑk jiɛk 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactrun back and forth (DCD 9.833)
走觸  zǒu chù MC: tsuwX tsyhowk OC: tsooʔ thjoɡCH 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNhit at high speed, run intoCH

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