CLAWS  爪爪

SHARP END of TOES of ANIMALS, TYPICALLY FELINES.
TALONNAIL
Hypernym
  • NAILSHARD SURFACE ON FINGERS AND TOES.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for the claws or fingernails is zhuǎ 爪.

Modern Chinese Criteria
爪子 zhuǎzi is a current modern word for claws.

爪兒

爪

鉗

腳爪 refers to the claw with the paw.

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

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.39

Words

爪  zhǎo OC: tsruuʔ MC: ʈʂɣɛu 8 AttributionsWD

The current word for the claws or fingernails is zhuǎ 爪.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 牙/TOOTH Yá 牙 can occasionally generally refer to teeth, even the exquisite teeth of a woman, but the word typically refers to the large side teeth or fangs of an animal with which it bites, and which are seen as a threat. The threatening teeth of an animal, the teeth with which a rat attacks one's home, are yá 牙. Thus one speaks of the zhuǎ yá 爪牙"the claws and fangs" as metaphors for weapons. Theses are sharp like fangs, and as such they lend themselves to metaphorical use to indicated dented patterns in ornaments.
  • Assoc: 角/HORN The current general term refering to a horn is jiǎo 角.

    Syntactic words
  • nccclaws; fingernails
附  fù MC: bjuH OC: bosCH 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • n(post-N)one's clawsCH

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