BETWEEN  中間

RELATION of one PLACE to TWO PLACES IN EXACTLY CONTRARY DIRECTIONS, OR the PLACE that has THESE RELATIONS.
IN THE SPACE SEPARATINGIN THE MIDDLE OFWITH ONE ON EITHER SIDEAMIDAMIDST
Hypernym
  • PLACEPART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
    • PARTOBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
See also
  • INSIDEPLACE which BE-IN:is-in ANOTHER MORE BIG PLACE.
    • MIDDLEPLACE OR TIME at the SAME DISTANCE FROM BORDERS OR LIMITS SURROUNDING them, OR IN-RELATION-TO TWO SIDES.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      [BASIC/MARGINAL]

      [ELEVATED/FAMILIAR]

      1. The standard (semi-grammaticalised) word is jiān 間 which refers to anything interposed between two things.

      [BASIC]

      2. Jì 際 is a dignified term for the area in space or time where different things meet.

      [ELEVATED]

      3. Zhōng 中 which regularly means "in the middle of" can occasionally come to be used in place of jiān 間 "between".

      [MARGINAL]

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      之間

      中間

      當間

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

      Old Chinese Contrasts
      LEIBNIZ 6.4 P. 36: I n t e r duo est, per quod ab uno ad aliud simplicissimo processu vel naturali ordine transitur, vel reapse, vel cogitatione saltem.

        Attributions by syntactic funtion

        • npost-N : 10
        • npost.N1+N2 : 9
        • npost-.N1 N2 : 6
        • ntt : 4
        • npost-npro : 2
        • vadV : 1
        • vt+prep+N : 1
        • NPab : 1
        • vtt+prep+.N1+N2 : 1
        • NPpost-N : 1

        Attributions by text

        • 荀子 : 7
        • 春秋左傳 : 6
        • 韓非子 : 5
        • 淮南子 : 4
        • 莊子 : 2
        • 臨濟錄 : 2
        • 孟子 : 2
        • 搜神記 : 1
        • 論語 : 1
        • 論衡 : 1
        • 鹽鐵論 : 1
        • 老子 : 1
        • 祖堂集 : 1
        • 楚辭 : 1
        • 古列女傳 : 1

        Words

        間  jiān OC: kreen MC: kɣɛn 20 AttributionsWD

        The standard (semi-grammaticalised) word is jiān 間 which refers to anything interposed between two things.

          Syntactic words
        • n(post-N)what is between the N
        • npost-Nplaceinterstice, opening
        • npost-Ntimebetween
        • npost.N1+N2placethe space between
        • vtoNbe between, come in between
        • vtt+prep+.N1+N2to lie between N1 and N2; to be wedged between N1 and N2
        閒  jiān MC: kean OC: kreenLZ 8 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • npost-.N1+N2= 間; between N1 and N2LZ
        • npost-npro(= jian1 間) between, e.g. 是間 "between these"LZ
        際  jì OC: skeds MC: tsiɛi 4 AttributionsWD

        Jì 際 is a dignified term for the area in space or time where different things meet.

          Syntactic words
        • nttinterface, the point where two spheres or eras meet 天地之際
        介  jiè OC: kreeds MC: kɣɛi 2 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • vadVbeing placed between two things ZUO 介居大國之間
        • vt+prep+Nbe wedged between
        中間  zhōng jiān OC: krluŋ kreen MC: ʈuŋ kɣɛn 2 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPabtemporalperiod inbetween > period
        • NPpost-Nbetween
        中  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 0 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • nwhat is between
        隔  gé OC: kreeɡ MC: kɣɛk 0 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • vtoNbe between

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