WIND 風風
AIR in STRONG MOTION.*Wind from a direction X. [Why so rarely the direction towards which the wind is moving?]
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
463. Ex Serv. ad ill. I. Aen., Creberque procellis Africus, et ipse Etymolog. lib. XIII, cap. 11.
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463. Inter Procellam et tempestatem. Procellas non tam terrarum 60 quam coeli esse, tempestates autem fluctuum sunt.
WIND
ventus is the general word for wind.
procella denotes a violent gust of wind.
tempestas refers to a complete lasting storm or thunderstorm.
vortex refers to a weak whirlwind.
turbo refers to a strong whirlwind that causes destruction.
VICTORIA
Words (15 items)
風 fēng OC: plum MC: puŋ 30 Attributions
The dominant word for wind is fēng 風.
- Word relations
- Epithet: 涼/COLD
Liáng 涼 (ant. wēn 溫 "lukewarm") describes a mild form of coldness, prototypically that of a cool breeze liáng fēng 涼風. - Epithet: 春/SEASON
- Epithet: 飄/QUICK
Piāo 飄 refers specifically to the speed of wind. - Contrast: 氣/AIR
Qì 氣 "ether" is typically more abstract than English "air" and refers to constitutive energies underlying both air and wind as well as fog, dew, rivers, mountains and so on. The word is also the standard word for "breath". [ABSTRACT]; [[COMMON]] - Assoc: 雷/THUNDER
- Assoc: 雨/RAIN
The general word for rain of any kind is yǔ 雨.
- Syntactic words
- nabfigurativewindy energy, abstract windy force (very common in medical texts, but also outside those)CH
- nabprocesswind; storm
- nmadVanalogyby the wind ??; in the wind; like the wind
- n{PRED}figurativebe wind (without or with 也)
- vito expose oneself to wind
- vi0there is a storm
- vi0processit blows, there is wind; it becomes stormy
飄風 piāo fēng OC: plum MC: biɛu puŋ 22 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPabprocesswhirlwind [[Note incidentally that this binome is not normally used adverbially. Binomes of this sort are frequent. See however ZHUANG 2 who deviates from this rule.]]
飄 piāo OC: MC: biɛu 6 Attributions
Piāo 飄 and the rare biāo 飆 refer to whirlwind, and the word is also written with two characters as 扶搖.
- Syntactic words
- nabprocesswhirlwind
- nadVanalogylike the whirlwind> in a whirling way
- viprocessblow, whirl about (like the whirlwind)
- vtoNwhirl up
猋 biāo OC: pew MC: piɛu 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nadNviolent wind; storm (=飆)
- nadVlike a whirlwindCH
霾 mái OC: mɢrɯɯ MC: mɣɛi 1 Attribution
Mái 霾 refers to a violent storm blowing as a sandstorm, or as a rainstorm.
- 古漢語同義詞辨析
(
HONG CHENGYU 1987A)
p.
107 - 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao
(
HUANG JINGUI 1995)
p.
222
- Syntactic words
- nabprocessrainstorm and sandstorm
- vi0there is a (sand)storm
疾風 jí fēng OC: dzid plum MC: dzit puŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPabeventstorm
息 xī xí MC: sik OC: sqlɯɡ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- nabeventderived breathing>blowing: windsCH
雷風 léi fēng OC: ruul plum MC: luo̝i puŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NP{N1&N2}thunderstorm
飄損 piāo sǔn OC: squunʔ MC: biɛu suo̝n 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNresultative(wind) blow to the extent of damaging
大風 dà fēng OC: daads plum MC: dɑi puŋ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPabprocesswind-storm; great storm
羊角 yáng jiǎo OC: k-laŋ krooɡ MC: ji̯ɐŋ kɣɔk 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPiactmove like the whirlwind
觱 bì OC: pid MC: pit 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nabprocesschilly wind
颸 sī OC: skhrɯ MC: ʈʂhɨ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nabprocesscold wind
飆 biāo OC: pew MC: piɛu 0 Attributions
Piāo 飄 and the rare biāo 飆 refer to whirlwind, and the word is also written with two characters as 扶搖.
- Syntactic words
- nabprocesswhirlwind
- nadVanalogylike a whirlwind 飆發
穨 tuí OC: ɡ-luul MC: duo̝i 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nabprocessstrong wind; tornado