ABDICATE 讓位
YIELD one's HIGH OFFICE as RULER to ANOTHER, CONFORMING to one's OWN DECISION.X
Old Chinese Criteria
Hypernym
- YIELD Be POLITE, USING RITUAL MODERATION AND PERMIT OTHERS to ACT as they DESIRE. (anc: 11/0, child: 1)
- POLITE Be APPROPRIATELY RESPECTFUL IN ACTING TOWARDS OTHERS. (anc: 10/0, child: 2)
- RESPECT ADMIRE as NOBLE AND SERVE POLITELY. (anc: 9/0, child: 3)
Other Hypernyms
- YIELDnew-e1f1870b-32d8-4900-b187-0b32d809001a Be POLITE, USING RITUAL MODERATION AND PERMIT OTHERS to ACT as they DESIRE. (anc: 16/3, child: 1)
- POLITEnew-79fdb513-c9fe-465c-bdb5-13c9fe765c68 Be APPROPRIATELY RESPECTFUL IN ACTING TOWARDS OTHERS. (anc: 15/2, child: 2)
- RESPECTnew-e376eea2-c2b2-4225-b6ee-a2c2b222257c ADMIRE as NOBLE AND SERVE POLITELY. (anc: 14/1, child: 3)
- YIELDnew-beb1e527-0aa2-4b47-b1e5-270aa25b478d Be POLITE, USING RITUAL MODERATION AND PERMIT OTHERS to ACT as they DESIRE. (anc: 16/3, child: 1)
- POLITEnew-cbfafaed-be5e-4b0a-bafa-edbe5efb0a78 Be APPROPRIATELY RESPECTFUL IN ACTING TOWARDS OTHERS. (anc: 15/2, child: 2)
- RESPECTnew-ae28bcf5-bcea-477b-a8bc-f5bcea977bd0 ADMIRE as NOBLE AND SERVE POLITELY. (anc: 14/1, child: 3)
Abdankung
ABANDONNEMENT.ABDICATION.RONONCIATION.DEMISSION.DESISTEMENT
Words (5 items)
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 cí MC: zi OC: zɯ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNresign from the office NCH
辭為 cí wéi MC: zi hjweH OC: zɯ ɢʷal 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNresign as N, abdicate one's position as an NCH
幝 chǎn MC: tsyhenX OC: thjanʔ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- nabfigurative(= shan4 禪) smooth handing over of authority to anotherLZ