HEEL  腳跟踵

BACK PART of the FOOT.
Hypernym
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for the heel is zhǒng 踵.

NB: Gēn 跟 is post-Buddhist.

Modern Chinese Criteria
腳跟

腳後跟

跟

踵

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

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 292

Words

踵  zhǒng OC: tjoŋʔ MC: tɕi̯oŋ 15 AttributionsWD

The current general word for the heel is zhǒng 踵.

    Syntactic words
  • nheel; also of shoe
  • n(post-N)one's heelsCH
趾  zhǐ OC: kljɯʔ MC: tɕɨ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nheel???
距  jù OC: ɡaʔ MC: gi̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nheel
跟  gēn OC: kɯɯn MC: kən 0 AttributionsWD

NB: Gēn 跟 is post-Han.

    Syntactic words
  • ncolloquial, late: heel; cf the modern meaning: follow on the heels

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