BRUSH    刷

TOOL CONTAINING a HANDLE AND HAIR OR RESEMBLING THINGS FIXED ON that HANDLE.
HAIRBRUSHTOOTHBRUSHPAINTBRUSHSCRUB BRUSHWHISK BROOMSWEEPERBROOM
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Shuǎ 刷 refers to a a miniature broom, typically to a hair brush; the word is quite rare. 2. Bǐ 筆 refers specifically to the writing brush, and the writing brush was in use already in oracle bone times; the word is not common in pre-Han times, but is very frequent for example in LH.
Modern Chinese Criteria
刷 刷子 抿子 牙刷 髮刷 衣刷 板刷 鞋刷 地板刷 臘刷 黑板刷 馬桶刷 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • BROOM　INTENSELY BIG BRUSH USED FOR:in order to CAUSE ROOMS TO BECOME CLEAN. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
See also
  • WRITING TOOLTOOL USED FOR WRITING.
  • BROOMINTENSELY BIG BRUSH USED FOR:in order to CAUSE ROOMS TO BECOME CLEAN.
Hypernym
  • TOOL　ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD. (anc: 5/0, child: 53)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 6.92

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 232

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  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 790

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  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 280ff

    • Words (8 items)

    筆  bǐ OC: prud MC: pit 30 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 刀/KNIFE General word for a knife is dāo 刀. Knives were usually made of bronze, since the Warring States period of iron, and had many functions; they could be used as a weapon (already from the Shang period), to cut meal - particularly meat - or as a butcherer's knife, and to engrave or smooth something. According to the purpose, their shape and size also varied. WANG suggests that dāo 刀 refers only to the knives with a concave blade, which can be conveniently used to cut something, whereas these with the convex blade were primarily used for curving and smoothing, and were called xiao 削; but it seems improbable. Knives with the concave blade are known which for their large size can be used only like a weapon or to cut something; it should be further noted that the knife-shaped coins of the Warring States period, which have the concave blade, are called dāo 刀, and that even small concave knives used in Han times to smooth bamboo books are often referred to as shū dāo 書 刀.
    • Assoc: 牘/STATIONARY Also common was the dú 牘 "wooden tablet".
    • Assoc: 墨/INK The current word for ink in Han times is mò 墨, and it is important to realise that this did not refer to an inkslab in Warring States times, but rather to an ink powder which was mixed with water to produce a kind of ink mud with one's hands. The ink slab became current from Han times onwards.
    • Oppos: 舌/TONGUE The current standard word for the tongue of humans or animals is shé 舌.

      Syntactic words
    • nwriting brush
    • n[post-N]one's brushCH
    • nadVinstrumentwith the writing brush
    拂子  fú zǐ OC: phɯd sklɯʔ MC: phi̯ut tsɨ 9 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPBUDDH: fly whisk (used for brushing away insects without killing them; the fly whisk became an important utensil for teaching students within the Chán tradition, also symbolizing the master's authority)
    翰  hàn MC: hanH OC: ɡaans 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nwriting brushCH
    刷  shuā OC: srood MC: ʂɣat 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nbrush; hair-brush
    翰林  hàn lín MC: hanH lim OC: ɡaans ɡ-rɯm 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPpoeticthe forest of writing brushes> the writers/poetsCH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nwriting brushCH
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      Syntactic words
    • NPpoeticthe forest of brushesCH
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPpoeticthe forest of writing brushes> the writers/poetsCH