AMONG  其中

BEing-IN a GROUP of THINGS. 
AMONGSTSURROUNDED BYIN THE COMPANY OFAMIDIN THE MIDDLE OFWITHLITERARY AMIDSTIN THE MIDST OF
Hypernym
  • BE INRELATION between a THING AND what that THING FILLS OR PART:partially FILLS.
    • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER.
      • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
See also
  • PARTICLEA WORD that NOT VERBAL AND NOT NOMINAL. [NOTE THAT THE GRAMMATICAL PARTICLES HAVE NOT BEEN FOCUSSED SO FAR IN THE SYSTEM AND NO SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS HAS BEEN APPLIED SO FAR.]
    Old Chinese Criteria
    [[COMMON/RARE]]

    [BASIC/DERIVED]

    1. The standard general word for "among" is zhōng 中.

    [[COMMON]]; [npostN]

    2. Jiān 間 is primarily spatial and comes to mean "among" only by figurative extension.

    [DERIVED]; [npostN]

    3. Yú 於 "in, at" can sometimes come to be used in an extended figurative meaning "among".

    [[RARE]]; [vtpostV]

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING

      Words

      於  yú OC: qa MC: ʔi̯ɤ 7 Attributions

      Jiān 間 is primarily spatial and comes to mean "among" only by figurative extension. [DERIVED]; [npostN]

        Syntactic words
      • vt[0]oN.postadVamong the N, inside the group NCH
      • vt[0]oN.postadVfrom amongCH
      • vt[0]oN{PLUR}.postadV選於眾"choose from among the masses": from among the Ns
      • vtoN.adVamong
      中  zhōng OC: krluŋ MC: ʈuŋ 6 Attributions

      The standard general word for "among" is zhōng 中. [[COMMON]]; [npostN]

        Syntactic words
      • npost-N1.adN2among
      • n{PRED}.post-N+ZHIbe among N's, belong to N'sLZ
      焉  yān OC: qran MC: ʔiɛn 4 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • v{vt+npro}postN.postVfrom among them 一焉
      間  jiān OC: kreen MC: kɣɛn 3 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • nab.post-Nrelation between
      閒  jiān MC: kean OC: kreenCH 1 Attribution
        Syntactic words
      • npost-Nthe place among CH

      Existing SW for

      Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: