Antonym

• HAPPYCOMPLETELY DELIGHTED with one's SELF:own LIFE.

Hypernym

• SADDISTRESS ARISING from BAD THOUGHTS NOW IN ONE'S MIND which CAUSE one to LACK DELIGHT:joy.NB: The words I have chosen to include in this group pose special problems of contrastive analysis. There is something irretrievably diffuse about their usage, in many cases, and in many others the number of relevant examples in the early literature is so small that it is impossible to get anything like a firm grip on their precise semantics. Under these circumstances I have tried to compensate for lack of neat analysis with more quotation, especially from Chǔcí. Throughout this section I quote my teacher David Hawkes' translations, mindful of the fact that many of these were written in the third year of his study of Chinese...
  • DISTRESSFEELING that one's SELF:own SITUATION IS INTENSELY BAD.
    • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
      • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something....

Modern Chinese Criteria

Old Chinese Contrasts

• Le concept de nostalgie Diogene ( STAROBINSKI 1966) p.

• C'était mieux avant ( JERPHAGNON 2012) p.

• L'irréversible et la nostalgie ( JANKELEVITCH 1983) p.