FINGER  手指指

MOST MOVING:mobile PART of the HAND.
Hypernym
  • NAILSHARD SURFACE ON FINGERS AND TOES.
    See also
    • TOEMOST MOBILE PART at the END of THE FOOT.
      Hyponym
      • THUMB　MOST INSIDE FINGER.
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. The standard word for a finger and a toe is zhǐ 指 and there are no current competing words.

        2. Mǔ 拇 refers both to the thumb and to the big toe.

        3. Bò 擘 is frustratingly rare but appears to refer unambiguously to the thumb.

        Modern Chinese Criteria
        手指

        手指頭

        指

        無名指

        小指

        拇指

        大拇指

        指頭

        春蔥

        玉尖

        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. 4.34

        • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 253

        • The Finger ( TRUMBLE 2010) p.

        Words

        指  zhǐ OC: kjiʔ MC: tɕi 13 Attributions

        The standard word for a finger and a toe is zhǐ 指 and there are no current competing words.

          Syntactic words
        • nfinger
        • nadVpluralwith one's fingersCH
        拇  mǔ OC: mɯʔ MC: mu 2 Attributions

        Mǔ 拇 refers both to the thumb and to the big toe.

          Syntactic words
        • nthumb or big toe
        食指  shí zhǐ OC: ɢljɯɡ kjiʔ MC: ʑɨk tɕi 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • NP"eating finger"> index finger
        五指  wǔ zhǐ MC: nguX tsyijX OC: ŋaaʔ kjiʔLZ 1 Attribution
          Syntactic words
        • NPall five fingersLZ
        擘  bò OC: preeɡ MC: pɣɛk 0 Attributions

        Bò 擘 is rare but appears to refer unambiguously to the thumb.

          Syntactic words
        • ntraditionally said to be in MENG: thumb 巨擘, but I have not found other good pre-Buddhist examples.

        Existing SW for

        Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: