ELEPHANT    大象

INTENSELY BIG BEAST which HAS IVORY TEETH AND A LONG TRUNK.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for the elephant is xiàng 象, and there are no common near-synonyms.
Modern Chinese Criteria
大象 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • BEAST　BIG WILD VERTEBRATE. (anc: 7/0, child: 12)
  • VERTEBRATE　ANIMAL which HAS a SPINE BONE. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • ANIMAL　CREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE. (anc: 5/0, child: 12)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 3.77

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 228

    Elefant, gefluegelt; als Reittier

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 737

    Elefant; Elefant als Reittier:

    A surprising number of depictions of Elephants are collected and described.

    • Words (2 items)

    象  xiàng OC: sɢlaŋʔ MC: zi̯ɐŋ 12 Attributions

    The standard word for the elephant is xiàng 象, and there are no common near-synonyms.

      Syntactic words
    • nelephant
    大象  dà xiàng OC: daads sɢlaŋʔ MC: dɑi zi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPelephant