Category:Old Chinese lemmas

Old Chinese lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.

• Category:Old Chinese adjectives: Old Chinese terms that give attributes to nouns, extending their definitions.
• Category:Old Chinese adverbs: Old Chinese terms that modify clauses, sentences and phrases directly.
• Category:Old Chinese classifiers: Old Chinese terms that classify nouns according to their meanings.
• Category:Old Chinese conjunctions: Old Chinese terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together.
• Category:Old Chinese determiners: Old Chinese terms that narrow down, within the conversational context, the referent of the following noun.
• Category:Old Chinese interjections: Old Chinese terms that express emotions, sounds, etc. as exclamations.
• Category:Old Chinese morphemes: Old Chinese word-elements used to form full words.
• Category:Old Chinese multiword terms: Old Chinese lemmas that are a combination of multiple words, including idiomatic combinations.
• Category:Old Chinese nouns: Old Chinese terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
• Category:Old Chinese numerals: Old Chinese terms that quantify nouns.
• Category:Old Chinese particles: Old Chinese terms that do not belong to any of the inflected grammatical word classes, often lacking their own grammatical functions and forming other parts of speech or expressing the relationship between clauses.
• Category:Old Chinese phrases: Old Chinese groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
• Category:Old Chinese postpositions: Old Chinese adpositions that are placed after their objects.
• Category:Old Chinese prepositions: Old Chinese adpositions that are placed before their objects.
• Category:Old Chinese pronouns: Old Chinese terms that refer to and substitute nouns.
• Category:Old Chinese verbs: Old Chinese terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.