MIST  霧霧

INTENSELY LOW CLOUD on the SURFACE of the EARTH.
FOGHAZEFOGSMOGMURKCLOUDDRIZZLE
Hypernym
  • CLOUDVISIBLE MASS of ASSEMBLED WATER OR ICE FLOATING IN the AIR.
    • WATERINTENSELY COMMON TRANSPARENT LIQUID LACKING TASTE which FILLS RIVERS AND the SEA.
      • LIQUIDSUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW.
        • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS....
See also
  • DEWWATER from the AIR on COOL SURFACES, TYPICALLY VISIBLE in the MORNINGS.
    • SMOKEAIRY SUBSTANCE CAUSED-TO RISE by FIRE.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The current general word for billowing mist and fog, especially as the medium in which dragons and the like are roaming, is wù 霧.

      2. Xiá 霞 refers to misty, rosy diffuse clouds.

      Qì 氣 is sometimes used to refer to the misty substance that wù 霧 is made up of.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      煙霧

      雲煙

      風煙

      香煙

      硝煙

      烽煙

      夕煙

      霧

      霧氣

      霧靄

      氛

      雲霧

      煙靄

      暮靄

      嵐

      重霧

      迷霧 refers to dense fog.

      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. 1.73

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.74

      Attributions by syntactic funtion

      • nm : 14
      • n : 4
      • NPm : 1
      • vi0 : 1
      • NP : 1
      • nadV : 1
      • vi : 1

      Attributions by text

      • 楚辭 : 5
      • 莊子 : 3
      • 淮南子 : 3
      • 論衡 : 3
      • 管子 : 3
      • 韓非子 : 3
      • 禮記 : 1
      • 史記 : 1
      • 祖堂集 : 1

      Words

      霧  wù OC: mos MC: mi̯o 16 AttributionsWD

      The current general word for billowing mist and fog, especially as the medium in which dragons and the like are roaming, is wù 霧.

        Syntactic words
      • nadVanalogylike mist
      • nmmist, fog 登天遊霧
      • vadNmisty, foggy
      • viOBI 3: be overcast, cloudy; or perhaps, as many scholars believe, and as DK used to believe until he changed his mind, although he cannot remember why he did change his mind: be foggy [note, however, that the identification of the graph is somewhat tentative]
      • vi0there is fog
      氣  qì OC: khɯds MC: khɨi 4 AttributionsWD

      Qì 氣 is sometimes used to refer to the misty substance that wù 霧 is made up of.

        Syntactic words
      • nmist; ethereal vapour
      雰  fēn OC: phɯn MC: phi̯un 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • vibe misty and foggy; flakes of frost
      霧氣  wù qì OC: mos khɯds MC: mi̯o khɨi 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPnonreferentialmists
      霧露  wù lù MC: mjuH luH OC: mos ɡ-raaɡsCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPm(cold) fogCH
      嵐  lán OC: p-ruum MC: ləm 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nmmountain mist
      煙  yān OC: qiin MC: ʔen 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nadNmisty
      • nmmist
      雺霧  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC:
      霧  wù OC: mos MC: mi̯o 0 AttributionsWD

        Word relations
      • Assoc: 露/DEW The dominant word for dew is lù 露.

        Syntactic words
      • nmmist
      霞  xiá OC: ɡraa MC: ɦɣɛ 0 AttributionsWD

      Xiá 霞 refers to misty, rosy diffuse clouds.

        Syntactic words
      • nmisty, rosy coloured clouds (appearing mainly in the morning or the evening)

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