SNOW  

WHITE FROZEN RAIN.
Hypernym
  • WATERINTENSELY COMMON TRANSPARENT LIQUID LACKING TASTE which FILLS RIVERS AND the SEA.
    • LIQUIDSUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW.
      • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
        • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT....
See also
  • ICEHARD FROZEN WATER.
    Hyponym
    • HAIL SNOW which has BECOME ICE SPHERES.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The dominant word is xuě 雪.

      2. Xiàn 霰 are snowflakes, and the structure of these drew early Chinese attention.

      3. Bīng 冰 is ice. See ICE.

      Modern Chinese Criteria


      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. 1.76

      • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 68

      Attributions by syntactic funtion

      • nm : 33
      • nab : 4
      • vi : 1

      Attributions by text

      • 楚辭 : 7
      • 山海經 : 5
      • 呂氏春秋 : 3
      • 管子 : 3
      • 春秋左傳 : 2
      • 莊子 : 2
      • 禮記 : 2
      • 論衡 : 2
      • 春秋穀梁傳 : 2
      • 毛詩 : 2
      • 陸機集十一卷 : 1
      • 孟子 : 1
      • 墨子 : 1
      • 荀子 : 1
      • 穆天子傳 : 1
      • 淮南子 : 1
      • 史記 : 1
      • 韓詩外傳 : 1

      Words

        xuě OC: sqled MC: siɛt 33 AttributionsWD

      The dominant word is xuě 雪.

        Word relations
      • Assoc: 霜/ICE Shuāng 霜 refers to frost.

        Syntactic words
      • nabprocessThe process of snowing, it snowing, snow as an event/process
      • nmsnow
      • vi0processit is snowing (this is not current in pre-Buddhist Chinese) Du Fu, 大雨:西蜀冬不雪
        xiàn OC: sqeens MC: sen 4 AttributionsWD

      Xiàn 霰 are snowflakes, and the structure of these drew early Chinese attention.

        Word relations
      • Assoc: 雹/HAIL The current word for hail is báo 雹, and i have not found any competing near-synonyms.

        Syntactic words
      • nmsnowflake
        fēi OC: phɯl MC: phɨi 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • vibe raining or snowing heavily
        pāng OC: phaaŋ MC: phɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • vibe snowing heavily

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