MOW    割草

REAP by CUTTING THINGS RESEMBLING GRASS.
CUT (DOWN)TRIMCROPCLIPPRUNEMANICURE
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006
Modern Chinese Criteria
割草 芟除 刈草 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • REAP　AGRICULTURAL WORK INTENDING to OBTAIN HARVEST. (anc: 16/0, child: 2)
  • AGRICULTURE　WORK IN FIELDS TO REAR USEFUL PLANTS.  (anc: 15/0, child: 4)
  • WORK　Make an EFFORT ENDURINGLY CONFORMING to a PLAN, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE an AIM, and OFTEN IN ORDER TO be PAID a SALARY. (anc: 14/0, child: 7)

Words (3 items)

刈  yì OC: ŋads MC: ŋi̯ɐi 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vicut down plants in order to harvest them
  • vt(oN)harvest the contextually determinate objects
  • vtoNcut down and harvest (plants and trees, not grain); cut down (also written 艾 in early texts)
  • vtoNpassivebe cut down in order to be harvested
艾  yì OC: ŋads MC: ŋi̯ɐi 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNharvest grain
乂  yì OC: ŋads MC: ŋi̯ɐi 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNSHOWEN: mow