WEEK    星期旬

PERIOD of TYPICALLY 7 OR 10 DAYS into which the MONTH is DIVIDED.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general term for the ten-day week, or decameron, was xún 旬 which is already current on OBI, being an important dimension of the organisation of Shāng dynasty state rituals.
Modern Chinese Criteria
星期 周 禮拜 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Part of
  • DAYPERIOD FROM MORNING TO EVENING OR FROM MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT.
Hypernym
  • 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)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.61

    • Words (1 items)

    旬  xún OC: sɢʷlin MC: zʷin 5 Attributions

    The general term for the ten-day week, or decameron, was xún 旬 which is already current on OBI, being an important dimension of the organisation of Shāng dynasty state rituals.

      Syntactic words
    • nOBI: ten-day-week; decameron; on of the six gānzhī 干枝 cycles of ten days each
    • nadVin the course of a ten-day week
    • nadV.postN{SUBJ}in the course of the next ten-day week
    • vi0adSOBI: after having passed one decameron