ADMIT    承認

ASSENT to what the LISTENER has in the PAST DECLARED to be TRUE OR what the LISTENER is BELIEVED to BELIEVE is TRUE.
CONCEDECONFESSACKNOWLEDGEOWNCONCEDEGRANTACCEPTALLOWREVEALDISCLOSEDIVULGEPLEAD GUILTY
Old Chinese Criteria
I cannot think of a good way of expressing the speech act of admission or of conceding the truth of what someone else has said in classical Chinese.
Modern Chinese Criteria
承認 is the general term for admitting or acknowledging something. 認錯 refers to the admission of a mistake. 認罪 refers to the admission of guilt. 認帳 refers to an acknowledgement of a responsibility which imposes duties on one. 認輸 refers to an acknowledgement of defeat. 認命 refers to the acknowledgement that something is one's fate. Compare also: 確認 refers specifically to the confirmation that something which may or may not be pleasant to the speake is the case. 認可 refers to approval of something as true or acceptable, the speaker being a person in authority. 肯定 refers to a positive appraisal or confirmation of something as being true. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • APOLOGISE　ADMIT that one has in the PAST been GUILTY of BAD ACT AND DECLARE that one REGRETS this.  (anc: 15/0, child: 0)
  • SURRENDER　ADMIT PUBLICLY that one is DEFEATED. (anc: 15/0, child: 0)
  • CONFESS　ADMIT one's SELF:own CRIMES OR MISTAKES. (anc: 15/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • DENYSPEAK:say that something that has been SAID is UNTRUE.
    Hypernym
    • ASSENT　SPEAK:say that one BELIEVES what ANOTHER in the PAST has SPEAK:said. (anc: 13/0, child: 3)
    • SPEAK　ACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 32)
    • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 854

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 18.33

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    ADMIT

    fateri refers to an act of disclosing something in a very general sense, as opposed to celare "to hide".

    profiteri refers to a free and spontaneous act of avowal of a belief one holds, unprovoked by questions; and this act is typically proud and assertive.

    confiteri refers to an act of confession provoked by questions, threats or the like; and this act is typically contrite.

    • Words (2 items)

    予  yǔ MC: yoX OC: laʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoSadmit that S, concede that S, go along with the statement that SCH
    可  kě OC: khlaalʔ MC: khɑ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt+Sconcede, admit