APPROXIMATELY  差不多幾ji1

PROBABLY BUT NOT EXACTLY
APPROXIMATELYALMOSTNEARLY(JUST) ABOUTMORE OR LESSPRACTICALLYVIRTUALLYALL BUTAS GOOD ASCLOSE TONEARNOT QUITEROUGHLYNOT FAR FROMFOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSESAPPROACHINGBORDERING ONVERGING ONINFORMAL PRETTY NEARPRETTY NEARLYPRETTY MUCHPRETTY WELLLITERARY WELL-NIGHNIGH ON
Hypernym
  • PROBABLEINTENSELY POSSIBLE AND EXPECTED to be TRUE.
    • POSSIBLEABLE TO BE DONE OR ABLE TO HAPPEN, OR ABLE TO BE THE CASE. 
      • ABLEHAVE what one NEEDS in SELF:oneself FOR ACHIEVING something.
        • HAVERELATION to something such that it BE-IN:is in one OR is CONTROLLED by one....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for approximation to completeness of action is jī 幾.

2. Dài 殆 (ant. bì 必 "certainly and completely") is very occasionally used to refer to the only approximate completion of an action.

3. Shù jī 庶幾 refers to the approximation to a desirable completing of an action and is always abstract.

Modern Chinese Criteria
幾乎

基本上

將近

幾幾乎

差一點

差點兒

爭點兒

幾

殆

險些

險乎

險



差不多

差不離

不大離

大同小異 J

相去無幾 J

五十步笑百步

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. 12.43

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    ALMOST

    paene is a metalinguistic word weakening the force of what one has said, like "almost".

    prope "nearly" indicates proximity to the truth.

    fere "about" indicates relative inaccuracy.

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • vadV : 13
  • VPi : 3
  • vtoN : 2
  • vt+prep+Nab : 1

Attributions by text

  • 春秋左傳 : 4
  • 孟子 : 4
  • 韓非子 : 4
  • 搜神記 : 2
  • 莊子 : 2
  • 管子 : 1
  • 史記 : 1
  • 祖堂集 : 1

Words

幾  jī OC: kɯl MC: kɨi 11 AttributionsWD

The current general word for approximation to completeness of action is jī 幾.

    Syntactic words
  • vadVnearly, almost
  • vtoNobject=numapproach to the amount of
庶幾  shù jī OC: qhljaɡs kɯl MC: ɕi̯ɤ kɨi 3 AttributionsWD

Shù jī 庶幾 refers to the approximation to a desirable completing of an action and is always abstract.

    Syntactic words
  • VPialmost get there, succeed almost completely
可  kě OC: khlaalʔ MC: khɑ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadVapproximately, roughly
殆  dài OC: lɯɯʔ MC: dəi 1 AttributionWD

Dài 殆 (ant. bì 必 "certainly and completely") is very occasionally used to refer to the only approximate completion of an action.

    Syntactic words
  • vadVlate?: nearly, almost
  • vt+prep+Nabbe close to V-ing
約  yuē OC: qplewɡ MC: ʔi̯ɐk 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadVroughly, approximately
略  lüè MC: ljak OC: ɡ-raɡDS 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadValmost; nearlyDS
尚  shàng OC: djaŋs MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadValmost; nearly;
所  suǒ OC: sqraʔ MC: ʂi̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • npro.post-Njust about, roughly Hanshu: 父去里所 "after the father had left for about one li's distance"

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