TABOO    避諱

FORBIDDEN BECAUSE of FEAR of the SUPERNATURAL OR the RULERS.
Old Chinese Criteria
Chinese character taboos are of three kinds: 1. in writing A. complete avoidance B. imposition of taboo variants 2. in speaking: avoidance of the word and sometimes even demonstrative avoidance of its homophones 3. in reading: demonstrative use of alternative pronunciation for the taboo character
Modern Chinese Criteria
掩蓋 掩飾 遮蓋 遮羞 遮掩 隱諱 諱言 諱 諱莫如深 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • CONCEALCAUSE TO BECOME OBSCURE:invisible.
Hypernym
  • FORBID　COMMAND NOT to ACT:do something. (anc: 16/0, child: 1)
  • COMMAND　ADDRESS someone, USING AUTHORITY, INTENDING to CAUSE that person to ACT RESEMBLE:as one INTENDS him to ACT. (anc: 15/0, child: 8)
  • ADDRESS　SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT.  (anc: 14/0, child: 23)
Other Hypernyms
  • FORBIDnew-7073abf0-55be-4723-b3ab-f055bea723f6　COMMAND NOT to ACT:do something. (anc: 15/2, child: 1)
  • COMMANDnew-64400543-79c1-45c0-8005-4379c115c025　ADDRESS someone, USING AUTHORITY, INTENDING to CAUSE that person to ACT RESEMBLE:as one INTENDS him to ACT. (anc: 14/1, child: 8)
  • ADDRESSnew-b2b104ff-6112-4947-b104-ff611229470d　SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT.  (anc: 13/0, child: 23)
  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1198

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 10.877

    TABU

  • "Sachwoerterbuch zum Alten China" ( UNGER SACH) p.

    TABU

  • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.

    • Words (6 items)

    諱  huì OC: qhuls MC: hɨi 13 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Ant: 宣/PUBLICISE Xuān 宣 (ant.* mì 秘 "keep secret") is an announcement to a general public; and the word often refers specifically to royal or imperial promulgation. [DESCENDING], [GENERAL]
    • Contrast: 禁/FORBID The current dominant general word referring to public prohibition is jìn 禁 (ant. quàn 勸 "encourage").
    • Assoc: 忌/TABOO
    • Assoc: 忌/AVOID
    • Synon: 忌/AVOID

      Syntactic words
    • ntaboo
    • nabactobserving taboos
    • vikeep quiet on taboo subjects
    • vtoNavoid and treat as taboo, shy away from mentioning (something); observe a taboo on the subject of
    • vtoNpassivebe avoided (as taboo); be not referred to
    • vtoStreat as taboo that; conceal the fact that S
    忌  jì OC: ɡɯs MC: gɨ 4 Attributions

      Syntactic words
    • nabsocialtaboo
    • vadNtabooed
    辟  bì OC: peɡ MC: piɛk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNobserve a taboo on; avoid to bring up
    畏忌  wèi jì MC: 'jw+jH giH OC: quls ɡɯs 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNtry to avoid respectfully DS
    天忌  tiān jì OC: lʰiin ɡɯs MC: then gɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabmetaphysicaltaboo instituted by Heaven, heavenly taboo
    忌諱  jì huì OC: ɡɯs qhuls MC: gɨ hɨi 0 Attributions

    taboos of any kind

      Syntactic words
    • NPpluraltaboos of any kind