UTINAM  但願

DESIRE what one KNOWS is PAST OR CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.DESIRE what one KNOWS is CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.
Hypernym
  • DESIREGOOD FEELING IN-RELATION-TO ONESELF concerning the FUTURE HAVING, CONTROLLING, or ACTING:doing SOMETHING DEFINED.
    • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
      • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
Old Chinese Criteria
It will be important to study the history of counterfactual desires in China. The relevant word is 願 "wish that" for which counterfactual usages need to be carefully analysed and collected.

Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING

  • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 1162

  • 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.193

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • VPt[0]oV : 16
  • VPt[0]oS : 7
  • padS : 3
  • vt V[0] : 2
  • npro.adV : 1
  • v S : 1
  • vtoN : 1
  • vt[0]oS : 1

Attributions by text

  • 說苑 : 4
  • 藝文類聚 : 3
  • 賢愚經 : 2
  • 祖堂集 : 2
  • 春秋左傳 : 2
  • 太平御覽 : 2
  • 妙法蓮華經 : 2
  • 莊子 : 2
  • 初學記 : 1
  • 劉義慶世說新語 : 1
  • 江淹集十卷 : 1
  • 阮籍集四卷 : 1
  • 人物志三卷 : 1
  • 陶淵明集十一卷 : 1
  • 玉臺新詠十卷 : 1
  • 全上古三代秦漢三國六朝文全陳文 : 1
  • 謝朓集六卷 : 1
  • 樂府詩集一百卷 : 1
  • 李德林集三卷 : 1
  • 吳朝請集二卷 : 1
  • 事林廣記 : 1

Words

但願  dàn MC: danX ngjwonH OC: daanʔ --CH 17 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPt[0]oSI wish that S could come true (although it us beyond human powers)CH
  • VPt[0]oVI wish that I could V (but of course that is unrealistic/impossible)CH
唯願  wéi yuàn MC: ywij ngjwonH OC: k-lul ŋɡonsCH 6 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPt[0]oSIf only S!CH
願  yuàn OC: ŋɡons MC: ŋi̯ɐn 3 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vt+V[0]counterfactualI wish that
  • vtoNcounterfactualwish (unrealistically) forCH
尚  shàng OC: djaŋs MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • padSwould that
使  shǐ MC: sriX OC: srɯʔCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • v SMay it be the case that; Would that SCH
其  qí MC: gi OC: ɡɯCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • npro.adVmay the subject V!CH
唯  wéi MC: ywij OC: k-lulCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • padSWould that S! I wish that S could happen; I wish that the action in S could be performed.CH
惟  wéi MC: ywij OC: k-lulCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vt[0]oSIf only S!, my sincely hope is that S.CH
但使  dàn shǐ OC: daanʔ srɯʔ MC: dɑn ʂɨ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPt+SWish that S! Would that!

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