FORGE    鍛爐

PRODUCE IRON TOOLS.
HAMMER OUTBEAT INTO SHAPEFASHION
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for forging something by the use of a hammer is duàn 段／鍛. NB: For liàn 煉 "melt, smelt" see MELT.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鍛爐 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • HAMMERTOOL which has a HEAVY METAL PART USED TO BEAT, BREAK, OR to CAUSE NAILS to ENTER TIMBER ETC..
  • SMELTCAUSE METAL TO BECOME LIQUID.
Hypernym
  • PRODUCE　ACT so as to DELIBERATELY CAUSE something to BEGIN to EXIST. (anc: 12/0, child: 17)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 9.61

    • Words (4 items)

    鑄  zhù OC: djos MC: tɕi̯o 15 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Object: 鍾/BELL The current general word for a bell of any kind is zhōng 鐘/鍾. When hung up singly, it is called tè zhōng 特鐘, with round opening as in illustration SUN JI. Rhythmic instrument. Also, hung up in a series of tuned bells, in two rows of eight bells each. Note that these bells were already rare by Han times. [In use mainly from the Western Zhou till the Warring States.
    • Object: 金/METAL Jīn 金 in antiquity usually refers to metal, concretely to bronze or copper.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcast metal; cast (a bell etc); mint (coins); produce bys smelting substances
    • vtoNfigurative"forge"
    • vtoNpassivebe forged
    鍛  duàn OC: toons MC: tʷɑn 2 Attributions

    The standard word for forging something by the use of a hammer is duàn 段／鍛.

      Syntactic words
    • vadNfor forging (metal)
    • vtoNto hammer, forge
    段  duàn OC: doons MC: dʷɑn 0 Attributions

    The standard word for forging something by the use of a hammer is duàn 段／鍛.

      Syntactic words
    • viactengage in forging
    煉  liàn OC: ɡ-reens MC: len 0 Attributions

    NB: For liàn 煉 "melt, smelt" see MELT.

      Syntactic words