ABDICATE  讓位

YIELD one's HIGH OFFICE as RULER to ANOTHER, CONFORMING to one's OWN DECISION.X
RESIGNRETIRESTAND DOWNSTEP DOWNBOW OUTRENOUNCE THE THRONEARCHAIC DEMIT
Hypernym
  • YIELDBe POLITE, USING RITUAL MODERATION AND PERMIT OTHERS to ACT as they DESIRE.
    • POLITEBe APPROPRIATELY RESPECTFUL IN ACTING TOWARDS OTHERS.
      • RESPECTADMIRE as NOBLE AND SERVE POLITELY.
        • ADMIREAPPRECIATE AND DELIGHT in what one BELIEVES is MORE GOOD IN-RELATION-TO either ONESELF OR IN-RELATION-TO what is COMMON....
    Old Chinese Criteria
    Ra4ng 讓 refers to abdication with a focus on this act being in favour of a successor.

    Sha4n 禪 refers to abdication with a focus on this act being one of selflessness or lack of mundane ambition.

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

      Abdankung

    • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.380.335

      ABANDONNEMENT.ABDICATION.RONONCIATION.DEMISSION.DESISTEMENT

    Words

    禪  shàn OC: djans MC: dʑiɛn 9 Attributions

    Shàn 禪 refers specifically to abdicating the high office of an emperor.

      Word relations
    • Conv: 受/RECEIVE The current general word is shòu 受 (ant. jù 拒 "refuse to accept"; ant.* yǔ 與 "give"), which can refer to any concrete or abstract form of receiving or being exposed to.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactthe abdication of the throne
    • nobject-nominalisationwhat has been abdicated from> the throne
    • viactabdicate
    • vtoNabdicate(also: 禪以天下)
    • vtoNN=humabdicate in favour of
    讓  ràng MC: -- OC: njaŋs 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vifigurativegive upCH
    辭為  cí wéi MC: zi hjweH OC: zɯ ɢʷalCH 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNresign as N, abdicate one's position as an NCH
    辭  cí MC: zi OC: zɯCH 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNresign from the office NCH

    Existing SW for

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