ANSWER 回答對/答
ADDRESS someone who has ADDRESSED one REQUESTING such an ADDRESS as a REACTION.
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
Antonym
- ASKREQUEST an ANSWER.
Hypernym
- ADDRESS SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. (anc: 14/0, child: 23)
- WRITE PRODUCE a DOCUMENT. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
- PRODUCE ACT so as to DELIBERATELY CAUSE something to BEGIN to EXIST. (anc: 12/0, child: 17)
Other Hypernyms
- ADDRESSnew-b2b104ff-6112-4947-b104-ff611229470d SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. (anc: 13/0, child: 23)
- SPEAK ACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 32)
- ACT MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
REPONSE.REPLIQUE.REPARTIE
Words (25 items)
對 duì OC: k-luubs MC: tuo̝i 64 Attributions
The dominant general word for responding to something that has been addressed to one is duì 對(converse wèi 謂 "address"), but that word usually refers to a reply directed at a superior who has put a question or occasionally a response to a statement by a superior. [ASCENDING], [GENERAL]
- Word relations
- Conv: 詢/ASK
Xún 詢 typically refers to questions addressed to inferiors. [DESCENDING], [OFFICIAL] - Epithet: 曰/SPEAK
The most colourless and general way of referring to any act of saying attributed to any subject, no matter whether animate or inanimate, something is yuē 曰, and the verb introduces direct speech. - Contrast: 應/ANSWER
Yìng 應 (ant. 喑 "keep quiet") is to come up with an immediate reaction of which the linguistic reply is a central part. [FAST]; [[RARE]] - Synon: 應/ANSWER
Yìng 應 (ant. 喑 "keep quiet") is to come up with an immediate reaction of which the linguistic reply is a central part. [FAST]; [[RARE]]
- Syntactic words
- DELETEreply (with sentential object)
- nabacta reply; something to say in reply
- vt(oN)reply (politely), make a polite reply to a contextually determinate person; give a required reply (not necessarily to a superior)
- vt(oN.)+Vrespond politely to what has been said; reply politely (typically to a superior)
- vt(oN.)+Vamong equalsanswer to an equal!!!
- vt(oN.)+VS=commentcomment politely towards a contextually determinate person on (something that has been said)
- vtoNrespond to N
- vtoN Vrespond politely to somebody sayingDS
- vtoNpositiveanswer
- vttoN1.+N2answer using the utterance N2 in reply to N1 對三公一言
對曰 duì yuē OC: k-luubs ɢʷad MC: tuo̝i ɦi̯ɐt 29 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPtoSquotationrespond (courteously, to a superior), reply politely 對道 versus 回答 in modern Chinese.
答 dá OC: k-luub MC: təp
荅 dá OC: k-loob MC: təp 24 Attributions
Dá 答 (ant. jīn 吟 (口字旁加金字)而不答 "not answer") refers to an immediate unpremeditated reply. [ASCENDING], [FAST]
- Word relations
- Syntactic words
- vadVin immediate response to a similar action 答拜 "bow in response to a bow"
- vt(oN)give an immediate (typically frank) reply to (in speech or in writing to what has just been asked); respond spontaneously to
- vt(oN)+VtoSanswer the contextually determinate N sayingDS
- vt(oN.)+Vreplying immediately to this (said...); replied as follows
- vtoN.+Vanswer N saying...
- vtoNobject=questionreply to (a question)
- vtoSanswer: "....
- vttoN.+Sanswer N (saying) S
應 yìng OC: qɯŋs MC: ʔɨŋ 23 Attributions
Yìng 應 (ant. 喑 "keep quiet") is to come up with an immediate reaction of which the linguistic reply is a central part. [FAST]; [[RARE]]
- Word relations
- Contrast: 對/ANSWER
The dominant general word for responding to something that has been addressed to one is duì 對(converse wèi 謂 "address"), but that word usually refers to a reply directed at a superior who has put a question or occasionally a response to a statement by a superior. [ASCENDING], [GENERAL] - Synon: 對/ANSWER
The dominant general word for responding to something that has been addressed to one is duì 對(converse wèi 謂 "address"), but that word usually refers to a reply directed at a superior who has put a question or occasionally a response to a statement by a superior. [ASCENDING], [GENERAL]
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)respond (immediately) to the contextually determinate person N
- vt(oN)+VtoSanswer to the contextually determinate person, saying:DS
- vtoNrespond immediately (in speech) to ; respond intellectually (to something challenging that has been said)
- vtoN. VtoSanswer (saying...) 應之曰
- vtoSrespond: S; respond that SCH
答言 dá yán OC: k-luub ŋan MC: təp ŋi̯ɐn 14 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPabactreply
- VPtt(oN.)+Sanswer the contextually determinate N: "S" (short for 答之言)
曰 yuē MC: hjwot OC: ɢʷad 8 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vtt[oN]+Srespond to what has been asked as followsCH
答曰 dá yuē OC: k-luub ɢʷad MC: təp ɦi̯ɐt 5 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPtoSquotationanswer
祗對 zhī duì OC: tjil k-luubs MC: tɕi tuo̝i 4 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPiactto answer, give an answer
- VPt(oN)omanswer (a contextually determinate N)
讎 chóu OC: ɡju MC: dʑɨu 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vtoNanswer
祇對 qí duì OC: ɡe k-luubs MC: giɛ tuo̝i 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPt(oN)answer, reply to (somebody contextually determinate)
- VPtoNanswer, reply to
應對 yìng duì OC: qɯŋs k-luubs MC: ʔɨŋ tuo̝i 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPabactrepartee
- VPimake an immediate answer, answer quickly
報言 bào yán OC: puuɡs ŋan MC: pɑu ŋi̯ɐn 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPtoSquotationanswer: S
報 bào OC: puuɡs MC: pɑu 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vtoNreply
- vtoN.+VtoSanswer N, saying...
復報 fù bào OC: buɡs puuɡs MC: bɨu pɑu 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPt(oN.)+VtoSreply to the contextually determinate audience saying
- VPtoN.+VtoSreply to N (saying)
詶 chóu OC: ɡju MC: dʑɨu 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNrare: reply to
報曰 bào yuē OC: puuɡs ɢʷad MC: pɑu ɦi̯ɐt 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPtoSquotationanswer (one might insist that there is always an understood audience present)
復語 fù yù OC: buɡs ŋas MC: bɨu ŋi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPt(+N.)adVanswer
應和 yìng hé OC: qɯŋs ɡool MC: ʔɨŋ ɦʷɑ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPt(oN)give an answer to the contextually determinate N
反 fǎn OC: panʔ MC: pi̯ɐn 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)COME BACK> reply
告 gào MC: kawH OC: kuuɡs 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoN.-Vt{以} Nanswer in terms ofCH
復 fù OC: buɡ MC: buk 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNmake a reply to
專對 zhuān duì OC: tjon k-luubs MC: tɕiɛn tuo̝i 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPabactanswering independently; answering on the basis of one's own independent insight 《漢書‧王吉傳》:“光祿勳 匡衡 亦舉 駿 有專對材。”
- NPadNof responding on the basis of one's own insight LY
辭 cí OC: zɯ MC: zɨ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nabtextwritten reply
酬 chóu OC: ɡju MC: dʑɨu 0 Attributions
Chóu 酬 can occasionally refer to a polite formal reply in the form of a little speech. [FORMAL], [POLITE]; [[RARE]]
- Syntactic words
- vtoNoccasionally in derived meaning: respond formally (as to a toast)
對言 duì yán OC: k-luubs ŋan MC: tuo̝i ŋi̯ɐn 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPtoSquotationanswer