QUEEN  王后

WIFE of a RULER OR FEMALE RULER.
Hypernym
  • WIFEMARRIED FEMALE MATE.
    • MATEADULT with whom one COPULATES.
      • ADULTHUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME.
        • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a queen is hòu 后.

Modern Chinese Criteria
皇后

王后

后妃

閼氏

娘娘

內主

妃子

貴妃

王妃

妃

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. 19.33

Words

后  hòu OC: ɡooʔ MC: ɦu 15 Attributions

The standard word for a queen is hòu 后.

    Syntactic words
  • nqueen; later: empress
  • n(post-N)N's QueenDS
  • n(post-N1.)=N2appositionN2, the Queen of the contextually determinate N1DS
  • n+NprtitleQueen Npr
  • npost-NprNpr=kingQueen consort of Npr
  • npostNprQueen Npr
太后  tài hòu OC: thaads ɡoos MC: thɑi ɦu 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPqueen mother
  • NPpost=Nprtitleempress dowager 竇太后
先后  xiān hòu OC: sɯɯn ɡooʔ MC: sen ɦu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N]my/our former queen
王后  wáng hòu OC: ɢʷaŋ ɡooʔ MC: ɦi̯ɐŋ ɦu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPdefinitethe queen

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: