KEY  鑰匙

METAL TOOL PRODUCED for USE TO OPEN a DEFINED:certain LOCK with.
DOOR KEYLATCHKEYPASS KEYMASTER KEY
Hypernym
  • TOOLARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD.
    • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Keys are rarely mentioned, but the general term is guǎn 管.

Modern Chinese Criteria
鑰匙

鎖匙

匙

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. 7.24

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

Words

管  guǎn OC: koonʔ MC: kʷɑn 5 Attributions

Keys are rarely mentioned, but the general term is guǎn 管.

    Syntactic words
  • nkey
  • nabfigurativecrucial part, essential point, "key"LZ
  • vtoNfigurativehave N as one's crucial partLZ
籥  yuè OC: lewɡ MC: ji̯ɐk
鑰  yuè OC: lewɡ MC: ji̯ɐk 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nkey
戶鑰  hù yuè OC: ɡlaaʔ lewɡ MC: ɦuo̝ ji̯ɐk 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPdoor-key
管籥  guǎn yuè OC: koonʔ lewɡ MC: kʷɑn ji̯ɐk 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPpluralkeys
門鑰  mén yuè OC: mɯɯn lewɡ MC: muo̝n ji̯ɐk 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPdoor key

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: