Taxonomy of meanings for 矢:
- 矢 nil (OC: lʰiʔ MC: ɕɯi) 式視切 上 廣韻：【又作〈竹／𠂕〉並俗矢 】
- 矢 shǐ (OC: lʰiʔ MC: ɕɯi) 式視切 上 廣韻：【陳也誓也正也直也説文曰弓弩矢也古者夷牟初作矢式視切四 】
- ARROW
- narrow; arrow with wooden shaft and feathers
- npluraldefinite: the arrowsCH
- narrowCH
- STICK
- STRAIGHT
- MATHEMATICAL
- GOOD
- ACT
- ARRANGE
- vtoNarrange so as to inspect [GR: 6. Exposer; aligner; étaler.]
- PUBLICISE
- EXCREMENT(屎)
- DEFECATE
- nmshit
- WICKED
- DESTROY
- BOW
- nbolt of the crossbow
- OATH
- viactswear oath ( with an appeal to the gods to reinforce a promise)
- nabactoath; the swearing of oaths;
- vttoN.+V[0]swear an oath in the presence of (someone N, saying...) 誓／矢之曰
- nabactoath of faithful love
- vtoNswear an oath of allegiance to
- vt+prep+Nswear an oath concerning (something or someone)
- vi+.VtoS:post.vtoNswore an oath of allegiance (with N) (saying...) 與之誓曰
- vtpost-.VtoNswear an oath of allegiance with
- vt+prep+N.adVtoSswear an oath to (some group) (saying that...)誓於軍曰
- vt+Vt.oSswear an oath (and say) 誓曰
- vtoSswear an oath that, vow that
- vt+V[0]swear to V
- vt[0]+V[0]I swear I shall V
- vtoNpassivebe sworn and consequently get valid (of an allegiance oath)LZ
- OPEN
- vtoNopen (one's mouth)
- ARROW
- shǐEXCREMENT
- nmshit; turd; dung 馬矢
Additional information about 矢
說文解字: 【矢】，弓弩矢也。从入，象鏑栝羽之形。 〔小徐本「栝」作「括」。〕 古者夷牟初作矢。凡矢之屬皆从矢。 【式視切】
- Criteria
- ARROW
[[CURRENT/RARE]]
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC]
[LARGE-SCALE/SMALL-SCALE]
1. The current ancient general word for any kind of arrow is shǐ 矢, and specifically the word refers in from Han times onwards to wooden-shaft rather than bamboo shaft arrows.
[GENERAL]; [[CURRENT]]
2. Jiàn 箭 came to mean bamboo shaft arrow from Qin times onwards, and the word originally refers specifically to the bamboo shaft of an arrow, from Warring States onwards. Even in Tang times, the word often retains its primary reference to the shaft rather than the arrow as a whole. From Eastern Han and especially Three Kingdom times onwards, the word comes to be used as a colloquial equivalent of shǐ 矢. Note that since all arrows appear to have been made of bamboo, the word jiàn 箭 does not mark out bamboo arrows from others. [Warring States and Han arrows ill.: LIU 1999: 72]
[SPECIALISED]
3. Yì 弋 refers to an arrow with string attached.
[SPECIALISED]
4. Zhuó 繳 refers primarily to the strings attached to yì 弋 "stringed arrows", but can occasionally refer to the arrow with the string.
[SPECIALISED]
5. Zēng 矰 refers to a particularly short stringed arrow.
[SMALL-SCALE]
6. Hóu 鍭 refers to a metal arrow shot from a crossbow, and used particularly in defensive warfare and ritualised official hunts. [ill: CHU 2000: 139 ?].
[SPECIALLISED]
7. Gǎn 笴 refers to the shaft of an arrow.
[SPECIALISED]; [[RARE]]
- DEFECATE
1. The rather rare general word including all forms of defecation is sōu 溲, but this word has a polite literary ring and is first attested in Han times.
2. Biàn 便 is a colloquial informal way of referring to informal defecation in places other than latrines.
3. Niào 溺／尿 is the standard colloquial term for urine or urination. See URINATE.
4. Yí 遺 the exrements excreted because of incontinence.
5. Sī 私 and the later xuán 旋 refers to males urinating. See URINATE.
6. Shǐ 矢／屎 refers specifically to shit.
7. Fèn 糞 refers originally to dung including rice straw etc, but came to refer to animal excrement used for fertilisation, dung. See MANURE.