Taxonomy of meanings for 天子:　　

  • DEITY
    • NPBUDDH: deity
    • NPvocativedivine creatures!
  • YOU
    • NP[post=npro_2]Your Heavenly Majesty
  • KING
    • NPnonreferentialthe Son of Heaven/Emperor, generally (with untensed predicate)
    • NPdefinitethe (contextually determinate) Son of Heaven (of the time)
    • NPabsocialthe position of the Son of Heaven
    • NPdefinitethe Sons of Heaven (of the Zhou dynasty, of a given time)
    • NP{PRED}be the Son of Heaven
    • NPindefinitea Son of Heaven, a certain Son of Heaven
    • NPpost-V{NUM}so-and-so many Sons of Heaven
    • NP{PRED}be a (true) Son of HeavenCH
  • EGO
    • NPquasi-pronominalI, the Son of Heaven; me, the Son of Heaven