ENVOY  使者

OFFICIAL who is SENT by the GOVERNMENT to ACT:perform a TASK.
AMBASSADOREMISSARYDIPLOMATCONSULATTACHéCHARGé D'AFFAIRESPLENIPOTENTIARYNUNCIOREPRESENTATIVEDELEGATEPROXYSURROGATELIAISONSPOKESPERSONAGENTINTERMEDIARYMEDIATORINFORMAL GO-BETWEENHISTORICAL LEGATE
Hypernym
  • OFFICIALADULT who WORKS IN a PUBLIC OFFICE OR IN A PUBLIC FUNCTION.
    • ADULTHUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME.
      • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
        • ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current formal word for an envoy is shǐ zhě 使者.

2. Shǐ/shì 使 can refer to an envoy.

Modern Chinese Criteria
使者

使節

使君

使命

使人

使

星使

行使

大使

行李 refers to an ordinary messenger of less than diplomatic status.

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    LEGATIO/LEGATI

    NUNCIUS

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 4,5,6

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. no. 5/6

Words

使  shǐ OC: srɯʔ MC: ʂɨ 27 AttributionsWD

Shǐ/shì 使 can refer to an envoy.

    Syntactic words
  • nenvoy
  • nabactdiplomatic official missionCH
  • vi+prep+Nact as an envoy in/to N
  • viactbe on an official mission
  • vtoNact as an envoy to (a place); go on an official mission to
行人  xíng rén OC: ɢraaŋ njin MC: ɦɣaŋ ȵin 17 AttributionsWD

Xíng rén refers to an envoy.

    Syntactic words
  • NP=Nprenvoy Npr
  • NP{vadN}Diplomatic Secretary; master of etiquette; official emissary of lower status than the formal envoy 使
使者  shǐ zhě OC: srɯʔ kljaʔ MC: ʂɨ tɕɣɛ 13 AttributionsWD

The current formal word for an envoy is shǐ zhě 使者.

    Syntactic words
  • NPemissary, envoy
  • NP=Nprthe emissary Npr
  • NPpost-NN's envoyDS
使人  shǐ rén OC: srɯʔ njin MC: ʂɨ ȵin 4 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPreferentialemissary; messenger
傳  chuán OC: don MC: ɖiɛn 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • v[adN]messenger; courrier
王人  wáng rén OC: ɢʷaŋ njin MC: ɦi̯ɐŋ ȵin 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NProyal envoy
行李  xíng lǐ OC: ɢraaŋ ɡ-rɯʔ MC: ɦɣaŋ lɨ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPmessenger; envoy
  • NPpluralenvoys
馹  rì OC: mljiɡ MC: ȵit 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nenvoy travelling in his own fast vehicle
候人  hòu rén OC: ɡoos njin MC: ɦu ȵin 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPenvoy

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