EASY  容易易／輕

POSSIBLE AND IF TRIED OFTEN ACHIEVED LACKING:without EFFORT.
UNCOMPLICATEDUNDEMANDINGUNCHALLENGINGEFFORTLESSPAINLESSTROUBLE-FREEFACILESIMPLESTRAIGHTFORWARDELEMENTARYINFORMAL EASY AS PIEA PIECE OF CAKECHILD'S PLAYKIDS' STUFFA CINCHNO SWEATA BREEZESMOOTH SAILINGDUCK SOUPA SNAP
Antonym
  • DIFFICULTPOSSIBLE BUT EVEN-IF TRIED ONLY ACHIEVED RARELY OR ONLY by USING BIG EFFORT.
    Hypernym
    • POSSIBLEABLE TO BE DONE OR ABLE TO HAPPEN, OR ABLE TO BE THE CASE. 
      • ABLEHAVE FEATURES one NEEDS in SELF:oneself FOR ACHIEVING something.
        • HAVERELATION to something such that it BE-IN:is in one OR is CONTROLLED by one.
          • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER....
    Hyponym
    • CLEAR　EASY to PERCEIVE OR UNDERSTAND.
      • NATURALLY　EASILY AND NOT:without BECAUSE of being COMPELLED OR BECAUSE of PLANNING, OR USING A METHOD.
        • WILD　NATURAL, UNRESTRAINED AND NOT TAMED.
      • TRANSPARENT　EASY TO SEE THROUGH.
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. The current general word for easiness of actions is yì 易 (ant. nán 難 "difficult").

        2. Qīng 輕 "light" is sometimes used to effortlessness of every kind.

        3. Líng 泠 is a poetic word referring to graceful effortless ease of movement.

        Modern Chinese Criteria
        容易

        簡易

        輕易

        便當

        易於

        輕

        易

        好

        易如反掌

        輕而易舉

        如湯沃雪

        如拾草芥

        俯拾即是

        信手拈來

        唾手可得

        垂手而得

        探囊取物

        甕中捉鱉

        手到擒拿

        談笑封侯

        一揮而就

        一蹴而就

        一拍即合

        迎刃而解

        發蒙振落

        舉手之勞

        不費吹灰之力

        如入無人之境

        得來全不費功夫

        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. 9.96

        • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 371ff

        • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.211.172

          FACILE.AISE

        • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.366

        • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 60A

        Words

        易  yì OC: leeɡs MC: jiɛ 90 Attributions

        The current general word for easiness of actions is yì 易 (ant. nán 難 "difficult").

          Word relations
        • Ant: 難/DIFFICULT The clearly dominant word for anything that is hard to achieve or hard to sustain is nán 難 (ant. yì 易 "easy").

          Syntactic words
        • nabacteasy naturalness
        • nabfeatureeasiness
        • nsubjectwhat is easy
        • v[adN]what is easy to do; what is the obvious thing to do; what is the natural thing to be doingCH
        • vadNeasy; without resistance
        • vadVwith ease, promptly; easily, without special cause; without proper constraint
        • viacttake it easy; be easygoing, be nonchalant; fail to take things as seriously as they deserve to be taken
        • vigradedeasy and natural; be easy and trifling; be an easy matter 
        • vimathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
        • vt+prep+Nabbe easier than NabCH
        • vt+V[0]putativebe prone to; find it easy to; be easily tempted to; come to V easily; regard it as easy to; regard as trifling
        • vt+V[0]{PASS}gradedbe easy to be V-ed
        • vtoNcausativemake things easy for
        • vtoNderivedfind easyCH
        • vtoNputativefail to take seriously, consider as easy to deal with; fail to pay the proper attention to
        • vtoNreflexive.自make things easy for oneself; be easy on oneself
        輕  qìng OC: kheŋs MC: khiɛŋ
        輕  qīng OC: kheŋ MC: khiɛŋ 10 Attributions

        Qīng 輕 "light" is sometimes used to effortlessness of every kind.

          Syntactic words
        • vadNeasily obtained (profit etc)
        • vadVeasily
        • vibe easy; need little effort; be effortless
        • vt+V[0]fail to take the matter of V-ing seriously; find it easy to; be easily ready to;
        泠  líng OC: ɡ-reeŋ MC: leŋ 2 Attributions

        Líng 泠 is a poetic word referring to graceful effortless ease of movement.

          Syntactic words
        • vi-Pwith graceful ease
        • vi.redhave a graceful cool easeCH
        易然  yì rán OC: leeɡs njen MC: jiɛ ȵiɛn 2 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • VPiintensitiveto be very easy
        偃然  yǎn rán MC: 'jonX nyen OC: qanʔ njenLZ 2 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • VPadVwith natural easeLZ
        無事  wú shì MC: mju dzriH OC: ma dzrɯsCH 2 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • vtoNfind no trouble with, find easyCH
        幾  jī OC: kɯl MC: kɨi 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • vadVeasily; just like that
        輕乎  qīng hū MC: khjieng hu OC: kheŋ ɢaaCH 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • VPadVjust like that, for no strong reasonCH
        不難  bù nán MC: pjut nan OC: pɯʔ mɢlaanCH 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • VPilitotesbe easy enough; be not so difficult at all [probably not: "not particularly difficult" 待考]CH
        坐  zuò OC: sɡools MC: dzʷɑ 0 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • vadVsitting down> effortlessly; without one having to do anything, without one doing anything
        容易  róng yì OC: k-loŋ leeɡs MC: ji̯oŋ jiɛ 0 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • VPieasy DCD: 《漢書‧楊惲傳》："郎中 丘常 謂 惲 曰：'聞君侯訟 韓馮翊 ，當得活乎？' 惲 曰：'事何容易！脛脛者未必全也。'" 北齊 顏之推 《顏氏家訓‧勉學》："校定書籍，亦何容易，...
        好  hǎo OC: qhuuʔ MC: hɑu 0 Attributions
          Syntactic words
        • vt+V(0)late: easy (for one) to V 好相與 "be easy to get along with"
        利  lì OC: rids MC: li 0 Attributions
          Syntactic words

        Existing SW for

        Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: