THANK  致謝謝

ADDRESS someone so as to SHOW GRATEFUL:gratitude, USING WORDS.
EXPRESS (ONE'S) GRATITUDE TOEXPRESS ONE'S THANKS TOOFFER/EXTEND THANKS TOSAY THANK YOU TOSHOW ONE'S APPRECIATION TOCREDITRECOGNIZEBLESS
Hypernym
  • ADDRESSSPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. 
    • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
See also
  • GRATEFULSOCIAL-EMOTION MAKING ONE WANT TO THANK SOMEONE BECAUSE S/HE BENEFITED ONE.
    Hyponym
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. There is no common or current word for "to thank" in classical Chinese. Xiè 謝 is very occasionally used to express this meaning.

    2. Wǎng bài qí mén 往拜其門 (MENG) is a classical periphrastic idiom referring to thanking.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    謝 is the current modern word for thanking.

    感謝 focusses on the feeling of gratefulness rather than its expression.

    道謝 (lit) focusses on the linguistic articulation of gratitude.

    稱謝 (lit) focusses in a slightly more formal style on the linguistic articulation of gratitude.

    致謝 "convey thanks" focusses on the transmission of the feeling of gratitude, often in front of a wider public.

    申謝 (lit) focusses on the expression of gratitude.

    鳴謝 refers to a very formal public expression of gratitude.

    璧謝 refers specifically to thanking in connection with a present that has been offered to one.

    感恩戴德 (prov) refers to profound feelings of gratitude.

    感

    叨擾

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

    • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 16.64

    • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

      THANK

      gratiam habere refers to the feeling of gratitude.

      gratias habere ditto.

      gratias agere refers to the speech act of thanking someone for a favour.

      gratiam referre refers to the expression of one's gratitude through action.

      GRATEFUL

      gratus refers to feelings of gratefulness.

      memor refers to an awareness of a debt of gratitude.

    • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p.

    • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 140

    Words

    拜  bài OC: proods MC: pɣɛi 16 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt(oN)to offer thanks for
    • vtoNoffer thanks for by bowing
    • vtoNab{S}thank for Nab
    謝  xiè OC:  MC: zɣɛ 6 Attributions

    Xiè 謝 is sometimes used to express this meaning, especially in the combination 拜謝 "thank politely"

      Syntactic words
    • viactexpress one's thanks
    • vtoNthank
    • vttoN.+Sthank N and say:
    • vttoN1.+N2express one's thanks to somebody for something
    報  bào OC: puuɡs MC: pɑu 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNrender thanks to (a divinity)
    • vtoNobject=servicethank for in response
    拜謝  bài xiè OC: proods MC: pɣɛi zɣɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPt(oN)express one's polite thanks to a contextually determinate person
    往拜其門  wǎng bài qí mén OC: ɢʷaŋʔ proods ɡɯ mɯɯn MC: ɦi̯ɐŋ pɣɛi gɨ muo̝n 0 Attributions

    Wǎng bài qí mén 往拜其門 (MENG) is a classical periphrastic idiom referring to thanking.

      Syntactic words

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: