Additional information about 尾
說文解字:
- Criteria
- TAIL
1. The general word for a tail of any animal, including birds, is wěi 尾.
2. Máo 旄 can refer specifically to the tail of a bovine.
- IMPORTANT
1. The most general term for the relative importance and crucial nature of something is yào 要 (ant. xì 細 ).
2. Zhòng 重 (ant. qīng 輕 "of no consequence") focusses on what carries considerable weight in a certain context.
3. Zhǔ 主 (ant. cì 次 "secondary") refers to what is crucial and primary, or dominant, in a certain context.
4. Běn 本 (ant. mò 末 ) refers to what is basic and and a matter of substance in a context.
5. Shǒu 首 (wěi 尾 / mò 末 ) refers what deserves to come first or what deserves to be regarded of first importance.
6. Jí 極 refers to the ultimate most elevated point of something.
7. Jī 機 refers to the crucial mechanism that makes something work properly.
- PRECEDE
1. The current word for being first or coming first in time, or for being first in the order of importance, is xiān 先 (ant. hòu 後 "later").
2. Chū 初 (ant. zú 卒 "finally" and zhōng 終 "end") refers to the very first stage in a historical development, and the word never has any abstract reference to an order of importance. See also BEGIN
3. Shǒu 首 (ant. mò 末 "final point"(and sometimes in nominal usages wěi 尾 "tail end")) sometimes refers to the first person to do something important.