BEACON  

FIRE USED AS a SIGNAL.
TORCH
Hypernym
  • FIREHOT LIGHT which APPEARS ABOVE what BURNS.
    • LIGHTFEATURE which CAUSES THINGS TO BECOME VISIBLE AND LACKING which they are NOT VISIBLE.
      • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
Old Chinese Criteria
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

1. Fēng 烽 refers to the signal fire used to give smoke signals in daytime.

[SPECIFIC]

2. Suì 燧 refers to the signal fire used to give signals at nighttime.

[SPECIFIC]

NB: Traditionally there have been two diametrically opposing views on this.

黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

WARFARE 23. 漢時白日所舉的烽、表、煙，可以總稱為烽，夜間所燔的積薪與苣火總稱為燧。南北朝起，漢之草烽、布烽業已廢止，唯有煙火， “ 烽 ” 除稱煙，亦可稱苣火。唐時， “ 烽 ” 已包括漢 “ 烽、燧 ” 之義，成為烽燧總稱。至於 “ 燧 ” ，漢以後可單用指亭燧之苣火；泛稱邊境報警的烽火。

Modern Chinese Criteria
烽火

烽煙

狼煙

烽燧

烽燹

兵燹

戰火

炮火

火網

煙塵

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

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    TORCH

    fax is the general word for a torch.

    taeda is a natural pine torch.

    funale is an artificial wax torch.

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 209

    Fackel:

  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 190

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 150

Words

烽燧  fēng suì OC: phoŋ sɢluds MC: phi̯oŋ zi 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPbeacon system
熢燧  fēng suì MC: -- zwijH OC: -- --DS 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPsignal firesDS
燧火  suì huǒ MC: zwijH xwaX OC: -- qphaalʔDS 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPsignal fireDS
烽  fēng OC: phoŋ MC: phi̯oŋ 0 Attributions

Fēng 烽 refers to the signal fire used to give smoke signals in daytime.

    Syntactic words
  • nMO: beacon-fire, signal fire with which to give smoke signals in daytime
燧  suì OC: sɢluds MC: zi 0 Attributions

Suì 燧 refers to the signal fire used to give signals at nighttime.

    Syntactic words
  • ntorch, signal fire for use during the night
烽戍  fēng shù OC: phoŋ qhjos MC: phi̯oŋ ɕi̯o 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPbeacon fire; places with beacon fire

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: