YAWN  打呵欠

BREATHE out INTENSELY AND INVOLUNTARILY, OFTEN:typically BECAUSE one is TIRED.
Hypernym
  • BREATHEDISPLACE AIR so as to FILL the LUNGS with AIR AND THEN CAUSE the LUNGS TO BECOME EMPTY of that AIR in order to SURVIVE.
    • DISPLACECAUSE to MOVE.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

Modern Chinese Criteria
打呵欠 is the current modern word for yawning.

打哈欠 is a variant of the above.

欠伸 focusses on the stretching of the body which typically accompanies yawning.

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.52

Words

欠  qiàn OC: khoms MC: khi̯ɐm 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • viactyawn (LIJI); open the mouth

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