BEFORE 以前
EARLY IN-RELATION-TO.
Old Chinese Criteria
Antonym
- THEREUPONAt the MOMENT WHEN something OTHER has HAPPENED.NB: THEN is taken as a logical conditional relation, whereas THEREUPON is temporal. The distinction needs much more attention.
See also
- IN FRONTPLACE BETWEEN SPEAKER AND something OR NEAR in the DIRECTION the SPEAKER LOOKING.
Hypernym
- EARLY TIME PERIOD SOMETHING has NOT-YET HAPPENED (anc: 5/0, child: 2)
- 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)
Other Hypernyms
AVANT.DEVANT
Words (3 items)
未 wèi MC: mj+jH OC: mɯds 3 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vadV.adSbefore V, already SCH
先者 xiān zhě MC: sen tsyaeX OC: sɯɯn kljaʔ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPpost-NprecursorCH
Click here to add pinyin MC: OC: 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- NPpost-NprecursorCH