The Origin of the "Conceal" Meaning of the Chinese Verb "Zhe" and the Evolvement of its Glosseme System

During the Wei and Jin Dynasty,the meaning of the verb Zhe was enlarged to screen the light in the sense of space,which means up an object,from the original meaning of between objects.In the Tang Dynasty,the meaning of Zhe was extended again from cover to conceal.The change of context highlights the different conceptual elements of Zhe,because of which,new meanings come into being.During the Song and Yuan Dynasty,the cover meaning of Zhe replaced its block meaning and took the dominant role in its glosseme system,and this is consistent with the age that Zhe was falling into decline in Lanjie conceptual field and all of which can reflect the effect of the glosseme system in the diachronic evolvement of the conceptual field.Comparing the semantic map of Lanjie conceptual field between Chinese and others,we can hypothesize that one word has the meanings of ‘block’ and ‘conceal’,it entails the meaning of ‘cover’. In the present studies,the conceal meaning of Zhe is explained as plea with bribery,which inevitably ignores the semantic features of Zhe.