SAW    鋸子

TOOL which has METAL TEETH AND is USED FOR CUTTING TIMBER.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. General term for a saw is jù4 鋸. It can be made of bronze, and since the Warring States period of iron. Saw was used not only like a working implement, but also for mutilating punishments (the oldest evidence dates the Shang period: REFERENCES TO BE FOUND). Besides this, in the Warring States period, the word was in the state of Yan used for a kind of weapon otherwise known as jǐ 戟 (combination of the gē 戈 halberd with a spearhead).
Modern Chinese Criteria
鋸 鋸子 電鋸 拉鋸 圓鋸 鋼絲鋸 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
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)

Words (1 items)

鋸  jù OC: kas MC: ki̯ɤ 6 Attributions

General term for a saw is jù 鋸. It can be made of bronze, and since the Warring States period of iron. Saw was used not only like a working implement, but also for mutilating punishments (the oldest evidence dates the Shang period: REFERENCES TO BE FOUND. Besides this, in the Warring States period, the word was in the state of Yan used for a kind of weapon otherwise known as jǐ 戟 (combination of the gē 戈 halberd with a spearhead:).

  • 楚文物圖典 Chu wenwu tudian ( CHU 2000) p. {pp. 146 - 147}

  • 甲骨金文字典 Jiagu jin wen zidian ( JGJWZD 1993) p. 1089

    Syntactic words
  • nsaw
  • vimiddle voiceget exposed to the saw
  • vtoNto use a saw on