YESTERDAY    昨天

DAY BEFORE the DAY NOW.
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 ／
Hypernym
  • DAY　PERIOD FROM MORNING TO EVENING OR FROM MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • PERIOD　TIME CONSISTING of a LIMITED SEQUENCE of MOMENTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 20)
  • TIME　ABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN. (anc: 3/0, child: 11)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.49

    • Words (6 items)

    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 lʰiin 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ntimeyesterdayCW
    昔  xī 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • padSYesterdayCH
    夜來  yè lái OC: k-laɡs m-rɯɯ MC: jɣɛ ləi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadSthe night before
    宿  sù OC: suɡ MC: suk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nadVthe day before