PALACE  宮殿

BIG PUBLIC-BUILDING USED as a DWELLING by a RULER OR an ARISTOCRAT.
ROYAL/OFFICIAL RESIDENCECASTLECHâtEAUMANSIONSTATELY HOMESCHLOSS
Hypernym
  • PUBLIC BUILDINGBUILDING USED by OFFICIALS FOR WORK.
    • BUILDINGBIG ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR HUMANS OR ANIMALS to DWELL in OR BE-IN, or MOVE ON.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a palace is gōng 宮, often expanded to wáng gōng 王宮 "royal palace".

2. Gōng diàn 宮殿 is generic.

NB: For the palace as the place for official functions see COURT.

Modern Chinese Criteria
宮殿

宮

殿

玉堂

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

Words

宮  gōng OC: kuŋ MC: kuŋ 20 Attributions

The standard word for a palace is gōng 宮, often expanded to wáng gōng 王宮 "royal palace". 2. Gōng diàn 宮殿 is generic.

    Word relations
  • Contrast: 殿/BUILDING Diàn 殿 is a large and high hall, often for audiences, in the palace or in the temple. In this meaning the word came to be used in the late Warring States, and in Han times it replaced the term táng 堂.
  • Assoc: 殿/PUBLIC BUILDING Diàn 殿 is used from Warring States times onwards to refer to the táng 堂 of earlier times.
  • Assoc: 室/PALACE

    Syntactic words
  • npalace 宮婦　宮中七市"three markets in the palace compound"
  • n(post-N)the contextually determinate palaceDS
  • n{PLACE}adVin the palace
宮殿  gōng diàn OC: kuŋ dɯɯns MC: kuŋ den 9 Attributions

Gōng diàn 宮殿 is generic.

    Syntactic words
  • NPnonreferentialpalaces
  • NPpluralpalaces of all kinds
室  shì OC: qhljiɡ MC: ɕit 6 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 宮/PALACE The standard word for a palace is gōng 宮, often expanded to wáng gōng 王宮 "royal palace". 2. Gōng diàn 宮殿 is generic.

    Syntactic words
  • npluraldistinguished buildings> palaces
  • npost-NN=masspalace made of NDS
宮室  gōng shì OC: kuŋ qhljiɡ MC: kuŋ ɕit 6 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPpalace
  • NP(post-N)(their) palacesCH
  • NPpluralpalaces
王宮  wáng gōng OC: ɢʷaŋ kuŋ MC: ɦi̯ɐŋ kuŋ 6 Attributions

The standard word for a palace is gōng 宮, often expanded to wáng gōng 王宮 "royal palace". 2. Gōng diàn 宮殿 is generic.

    Syntactic words
  • NProyal palace
宮闕  gōng què, quē OC: kuŋ khod MC: kuŋ khi̯ɐt 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPnonreferentialpalace buildings
殿堂  diàn táng OC: dɯɯns daaŋ MC: den dɑŋ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPnonreferentialsumptuous large buildings
殿屋  diàn wū OC: dɯɯns qooɡ MC: den ʔuk 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPpluralpalace buildings of all kinds
公  gōng OC: klooŋ MC: kuŋ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • nthe office/palace (scil. of the duke)
後宮  hòu gōng MC: huwX kjuwng OC: ɡooʔ kuŋDS 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPinner courts of the rulerDS
禁  jìn OC: krɯms MC: kim 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nforbidden inner recesses of the palace
宮觀  gōng guàn OC: kuŋ koons MC: kuŋ kʷɑn 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPpluralpalaces
帝宇  dì yǔ OC: k-leeɡs ɢʷraʔ MC: tei ɦi̯o 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPimperial palace
廷宮  tíng gōng OC: deeŋ kuŋ MC: deŋ kuŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPpluralthe palaces
玉堂  yù táng OC: ŋɡoɡ daaŋ MC: ŋi̯ok dɑŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPelaborate palace (DCD specifies many specific references)
夏  xià OC: ɡraaʔ MC: ɦɣɛ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nSHI: large palace
內  nèi OC: nuubs MC: nuo̝i 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nimperial palace

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: