Taxonomy of meanings for 剖:　　

  • 剖 fǔ (OC: phɯʔ MC: pʰio) 芳武切 上 廣韻：【判也又普厚切 】
  • 剖 pōu (OC: phɯʔ MC: pʰəu) 普后切 上 廣韻：【判也破也普后切五 】
    • SPLIT
      • viactget split, split apart
      • vtoNsplit; cut open (a heart etc); have cut open (one's back)
      • vtoNpassivebe split
      • vtoNmiddle voicehave (one's heart etc) cut open
    • DISTINGUISH

      Additional information about 剖

      說文解字:

        Criteria
      • CUT

        1. The commonest general word for "cut" is ancient Chinese kat, modern reading gē 割.

        2. Qiē 切 is to cut into pieces.

        3. Duàn 斷 is to cut a part off a whole.

        4. Zhǎn 斬, fá 伐, zhuó 斫, zhuó 斲 describe the violent hacking off of a part from a whole.

        5. Shān 芟 is to cut grass or shrubs.

        6. Pī 披 "pare" refer to the treatment of surfaces of objects by cutting into them to produce smoothness of surface or a pointed end.

        7. Pǒu 剖 refers to cutting into something so as to reveal its inner structure. See SPLIT

        8. Xiāo 削 typically refers to cutting something off so as to reduce its size.

        9. Jiǎn 翦 refers specifically to the clipping of something that grows on a living structure.

        NB: The size of the vocabulary in this field is extraordinary: over 70 wods are listed under this meaning.

      • SPLIT

        1. The most general word referring to the action of splitting things into several parts is pǒu 剖, and when the dividing is distinctly into two parts the current word is pàn 判 (ant.** bìng 併 "fit together").

        2. Pī 劈 / 辟 as well as the archaic s � 1 斯 refer to a violent act of cleaving or hacking to pieces.

        3. Liè 裂 refers to any process which results in the cleaving of an object and focusses on that result rather than the process itself.

        4.. Pī 披 is to split open without necessarily dividing the object of splitting into two separate parts.

        5. Xī 析 is a mild act of dividing a thing, typically into its proper constituent parts, or separating off constituent parts (often for analysis).

        Word relations
      • Object: (SPLIT)心/HEART The standard word for the physiological organ known as the heart in English is xīn 心.
      • Assoc: (SPLIT)判/SPLIT The most general word referring to the action of splitting things into several parts is pǒu 剖, and when the dividing is distinctly into two parts the current word is pàn 判 (ant.** bìng 併 "fit together").