ROCK    岩石

INTENSELY BIG STONE.
BOULDERSTONEPEBBLE
Modern Chinese Criteria
岩石 岩 磐石 盤石 岩石 岩 磐石 盤石 石砬子 石頭砬子 礁石 礁 暗礁 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • STONE　COMMON INTENSELY HARD SUBSTANCE in LANDSCAPE. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.44

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.375

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 824

    磯，磧

    1. WL distinguishes between typically large rocks by the water, ji1 磯 and pebbles qi4 磧. The distinction is fair enough, but the words do not belong to one synonym group.

    • Words (7 items)

    石  shí OC: djaɡ MC: dʑiɛk 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nrock
    巖石  yán shí dàn MC: ngaem dzyek OC: ŋɡraam djaɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPlarge rockCH
    岨  qū OC: skha MC: tshi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nK: rock covered with earth SHI
    岸  àn OC: ŋɡaans MC: ŋɑn 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nrock
    磐石  pán shí OC: baan djaɡ MC: bʷɑn dʑiɛk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NProck
    磐  pán OC: baan MC: bʷɑn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nboulder, large stone (YI)
    磯  jī OC: kɯl MC: kɨi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nlarge rock near water (on which one might sit and fish, as we are told Kong Rong did)