See also: 具体

Chinese

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tool; device; utensil
tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument
 
body; form; style
body; form; style; system
 
trad. (具體)
simp. (具体)

Etymology

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Particularly: “Japanese sources list this as coming from Mencius. C.f. http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%90%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84”

Attestable in ancient Chinese texts. Used in Mencius's writings with a meaning close to the literal sense, the entirety is arranged, in order. Reborrowed from Japanese ()(たい) (gutai), which was repurposed in the 1881 work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) by Inoue Tetsujirō as a translation of the English term concrete, as opposed to abstract.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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具體

  1. specific; particular; concrete; exact
    具體位置具体位置  ―  jùtǐ wèizhì  ―  exact location
    具體具体  ―  Tā jiǎng de hěn jùtǐ.  ―  He spoke very specifically.
    大家從事哪些具體工作 [MSC, trad.]
    大家从事哪些具体工作 [MSC, simp.]
    Dàjiā dōu shì cóngshì nǎxiē jùtǐ gōngzuò de? [Pinyin]
    Specifically what kind of work is everybody doing?
    接下來具體內容大家 [MSC, trad.]
    接下来具体内容大家 [MSC, simp.]
    Jiēxiàlái wǒ bǎ jùtǐ de nèiróng fā gěi dàjiā. [Pinyin]
    Next, I will send you the specific content.
    資料但是沒有形成什麼具體體系 [MSC, trad.]
    资料但是没有形成什么具体体系 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ chá le zīliào, dànshì dōu shì líng líng suì suì de, hái méiyǒu xíngchéng shénme jùtǐ de tǐxì. [Pinyin]
    I checked the materials, but they're all in bits and pieces — a concrete system has not been formed yet.

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
たい
Hyōgai
goon
For pronunciation and definitions of 具體 – see the following entry.
具体ぐたい
[noun] something concrete, tangible
(This term, 具體, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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具體 (guche) (hangeul 구체)

  1. hanja form? of 구체

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Adjective

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具體

  1. chữ Hán form of cụ thể (specific; concrete; detailed).