LATE  後/晏

TIME when some OTHER TIME has ALREADY HAPPENED:passed, or when something SHOULD ALREADY have HAPPENED.
BEHIND SCHEDULEBEHIND TIMEBEHINDHANDTARDYRUNNING LATEOVERDUEBELATEDDELAYEDFOLLOWINGSUBSEQUENT TOAT THE CLOSE/END OFIN THE WAKE OFFORMAL POSTERIOR TO
Antonym
  • AS SOON ASIMMEDIATELY WHEN.
    • EARLYTIME PERIOD SOMETHING has NOT-YET HAPPENED
      Hypernym
      • TIMEABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN.
      See also
      • EVENINGPERIOD of DAY BEFORE one SLEEPS AND LATER:after one STOPS WORKING.
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. The current general word for lateness is hòu 後 (ant. xiān 先 "earlier"), and this word refers to anything that comes later in time than something else.

        2. Yàn 晏 (ant. zǎo 早 "early") refers to a time later that what is acceptable.

        3. Wǎn 晚 (ant. zǎo 早 "early") can refer a point in time much later than presupposed, or a time much later than the previous event.

        4. Chí 遲 (ant. zǎo 早 "early") refers to a failure to make the speed required of one.

        Modern Chinese Criteria




        深 refers to a time late at night.

        晏 refers to an arrangement being made for late at night.

        • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 707

        • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.17

        • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 357

        • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 87

        • Divisiones quae vulgo dicuntur Aristoteleae ( DIVISIONES 1906) p. B 65

        Words

          hòu OC: ɡooʔ MC: ɦu 41 Attributions

        The current general word for lateness is hòu 後 (ant. xiān 先 "earlier"), and this word refers to anything that comes later in time than something else.

          Word relations
        • Ant: 前/EARLY
        • Epithet: 世/GENERATION The dominant general word for a generation is shì 世, and this word has strong temporal connotations referring to the period of one generation, and the word has a certain syntactic flexibility. Sān shì 三世 refers to three generations.
        • Assoc: 世/GENERATION The dominant general word for a generation is shì 世, and this word has strong temporal connotations referring to the period of one generation, and the word has a certain syntactic flexibility. Sān shì 三世 refers to three generations.

          Syntactic words
        • nabactlateness, being too late
        • nadNgraded: ensuing, later (generations, times etc)
        • nadNfigurativelater in one's textCH
        • nadS1.post-S2(then) later
        • nadV1.post-V2afterwardsCH
        • nadVgradedtoo late, later than expected; later 後至
        • npost-.N ZHI:adSafter
        • npost-S1.adS2after S1, S2
        • npost-S1.adS2after S thenCH
        • viactfall behind; be later than expected
        • vigradedbe too late; be later than expected
        • vt0oN.adSlater by the time N
        • vt[oN]arrive later than othersLZ
        • vtoNbe late for (an event); be later than
          wǎn OC: monʔ MC: mi̯ɐn 15 Attributions

        Wǎn 晚 (ant. zǎo 早"early") can refer a point in time much later than presupposed, or a time much later than the previous event.

          Syntactic words
        • nabactacting too late
        • vadNlatter, closer to the present, close to the present; later
        • vadVafter a very long time; late in the day, later rather than earlier
        • vadVnegativetoo late (to be of any purpose)
        • vibe late in the day
        • vigradedbe too late; be late; [ > be overdue]
          yàn OC: qraans MC: ʔɣan 11 Attributions

        Yàn 晏 (ant. zǎo 早"early") refers to a time later that what is acceptable.

          Word relations
        • Ant: 早 / 蚤/EARLY The current word for early, referring both to periods in one's life and time in the year or the day, is zǎo 早 (ant. wǎn 晚 "late"), but the word often specifically means "too early".

          Syntactic words
        • vadVlate; late in the evening
        • vadVnegativelater than acceptable, too late
        • vi0adN(the time) when it is late
        • viactcome later than expected, be late
        卻後  què hòu OC: khaɡ ɡooʔ MC: khi̯ɐk ɦu 5 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • VPt0oN.adSafter the time N, then S
        無及  wú jí OC: ma ɡrɯb MC: mi̯o gip 4 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • VPi0it is too late
        後時  hòu shí OC: ɡooʔ ɡljɯ MC: ɦu dʑɨ 3 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • NPadSat a later time >afterwards
        殿  diàn OC: dɯɯns MC: den 2 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • viactcome last
        後世  hòu shì MC: huwX -- OC: ɡooʔ lʰebsCH 2 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • NPadVin later timesCH
          jiǔ OC: klɯʔ MC: kɨu 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • vtoNcausativedelay (a contextually determinate object)
          lái OC: m-rɯɯ MC: ləi 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • vtpostNcoming from> since N
          qī OC: ɡɯ MC: gɨ 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • vt(oN)make a delay, deal with the matter/a person not immediately but with some delay
          guò OC: klools MC: kʷɑ 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • vtoN.adVlater than N
          chí OC: rlil MC: ɖi 1 Attribution

        Chí 遲 (ant. zǎo 早"early") refers to a failure to make the speed required of one.

          Syntactic words
        • vadVtoo late
        • vibe too slow so as to be late
        • vtoNputativeregard somebody/something as being too slow and too late
        遲晚  chí wǎn OC: rlil monʔ MC: ɖi mi̯ɐn 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • VPadNgradedlater
        既後  jì hòu OC: kɯds ɡooʔ MC: kɨi ɦu 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • PP{DISCONT}adSAfter x
        經歷日月  jīng lì rì yuè OC: keeŋ reeɡ mljiɡ ŋod MC: keŋ lek ȵit ŋi̯ɐt 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • VPadSafter a long while
          jì MC: kjwijH OC: kʷidsCH 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • nadNlate (as in 季秋 late autumn)CH
          tā tuō MC: -- OC: lʰaalCH 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • npro.adNlaterCH
          Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • npro.adNlaterCH

        Existing SW for

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