BROOM  掃帚

INTENSELY BIG BRUSH USED FOR:in order to CAUSE ROOMS TO BECOME CLEAN.
BESOMPUSH BROOMCORN BROOMWHISK BROOM
Hypernym
  • BRUSHTOOL CONTAINING a HANDLE AND HAIR OR RESEMBLING THINGS FIXED ON that HANDLE.
    • TOOLARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD.
See also
  • SWEEPREMOVE DUST USING a BROOM.
    • BRUSHTOOL CONTAINING a HANDLE AND HAIR OR RESEMBLING THINGS FIXED ON that HANDLE.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The current word for the broom, which standardly cooccurs with jī1 箕 "dustpan", is zhǒu 帚.

      2. Liè 鬣 refers specifically to a broom made of the mane of a horse.

      3. Sáo 埽 refers to the process of sweeping something clean, and this process is standardly accompanied by xǐ 灑 / 洒 "sprinkling with water". See SWEEP

      4. Shuā 刷 refers to a broom-like brush, but the word is rare in pre-Han texts. See BRUSH

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      掃帚 is the current modern word for using a broom to clean an area.

      掃

      帚 is the standard modern word for a broom.

      笤帚 refers to a whisk broom.

      彗

      炊帚

      筅帚

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

      Words

      帚  zhǒu OC: pjuʔ MC: tɕɨu 6 AttributionsWD

      The current word for the broom, which standardly cooccurs with jī1 箕"dustpan", is zhǒu 帚.

        Syntactic words
      • nbroom
      鬣  liè OC: rab MC: liɛp 1 AttributionWD

      Liè 鬣 refers specifically to a broom made of the mane of a horse.

        Syntactic words
      • n(horse's mane used as a) broom
      篲  huì MC: zjwejH OC: sɢʷedsCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • nbroomCH
      掃  sǎo OC: sbluuʔ MC: sɑu 0 AttributionsWD

      Sǎo 埽 refers to the process of sweeping something clean, and this process is standardly accompanied by xǐ 灑/洒 "sprinkling with water". See SWEEP

        Syntactic words
      • nbroom
      荓  píng OC: beeŋ MC: beŋ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nplant which is used for producing brooms (GUAN)
      箕帚  jī zhǒu OC: kɯ pjuʔ MC: kɨ tɕɨu 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPdustpan and broom Ricci: Balai et van à poussière

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