GRINDSTONE    磨刀石磑

FLAT STONE USED FOR GRINDING.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Ài 磑 refers to the round grindstone revolving on an axle. It is not completely clear whether the implement to which the word refers was used to grind the grain or to remove the husk. It is also not known when round revolving grindstones actually began to be used. The oldest finds dates from the Warrring States period, and in Han times they were already common. 2. Mó 磨 originally referred to the polishing; in Han times the word began to be used for grinding grain and like another term for a grindstone. 3. Lóng 礱 refers to the grindstone for removing husk of the grain. NB: It is difficult to distinguish the terms which follows below and attribute them to concrete archaeological finds; but it is at least obvious that part of them, particularly lì 礪 and lì 厲 does not fit the definition given above. Round grindstones seems to be no older than the Warring States period (CHEN 1991: 199) and it is highly probable that particularly archaic whetstones described below were quite simple implements like these illustrated in XIANG 1997: pp. 58, fig. 1, 2]
Modern Chinese Criteria
磨刀石 礪石 油石 硎 砥 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • WHETSTONESTONE USED FOR CAUSING KNIVES TO BECOME MORE SHARP ON.
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)
  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 809

    砥，厲，礪

    • Words (8 items)

    磨石  mó shí OC: maal djaɡ MC: mʷɑ dʑiɛk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPgrindstone
    砥  dǐ OC: tjilʔ MC: tɕi
    砥  zhī OC: tjil MC: tɕi
    砥  (zhǐ) OC: tjelʔ MC: tɕiɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Nfigurativea "grindstone" for N
    碫  duàn MC: twanH OC: toons 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ngrindstoneDS
    磨  mò OC: maals MC: mʷɑ 1 Attribution

    Mó 磨 originally referred to the polishing; in Han times the word began to be used for grinding grain and like another term for a grindstone. [WANG 1993: 228]

      Syntactic words
    • nHAN: grindstone, millstone
    愛  ài OC: qɯɯds MC: ʔəi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    磏  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions

    lián

      Syntactic words
    • ngrindstone; by extenstion: persevering self-cultivation
    磑  wèi OC: ŋɡʷɯɯls MC: ŋuo̝i 0 Attributions

    Wèi 磑 refers to the round grindstone revolving on an axle. It is not completely clear whether the implement to which the word refers was used to grind the grain or to remove the husk. It is also not known when round revolving grindstones actually began to be used. The oldest finds dates from the Warrring States period, and in Han times they were already common.

      Syntactic words
    • ngrindstone revolving on an axle
    礱  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 0 Attributions

    Lóng 礱 refers to the grindstone for removing husk of the grain.

      Syntactic words
    • ngrindstone for removing the husk of grain