YESTERDAY  昨天

DAY BEFORE the DAY NOW.
Hypernym
  • DAYPERIOD FROM MORNING TO EVENING OR FROM MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT.
    • PERIODTIME CONSISTING of a LIMITED SEQUENCE of MOMENTS.
      • TIMEABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

Modern Chinese Criteria
昨日

昨天

昨

昨兒

昨兒個

夜兒個



前日

前天

前兒

前兒個

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. 14.49

Words

昨日  zuó rì OC: dzaaɡ mljiɡ MC: dzɑk ȵit 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPyesterday
  • NP(adN)yesterday's (with deleted N)
昔者  xī zhě OC: sqaɡ kljaʔ MC: siɛk tɕɣɛ 4 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPadSrecentyesterday, a short time ago
昨天  zuó tiān MC: dzak then OC: dzaaɡ lʰiinCW 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • ntimeyesterdayCW
昔  xī 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • padSYesterdayCH
宿  sù OC: suɡ MC: suk 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nadVthe day before
夜來  yè lái OC: k-laɡs m-rɯɯ MC: jɣɛ ləi 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPadSthe night before

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: