EYEBROW    眉毛眉

HAIR ABOVE the EYES.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for the eyebrow is méi 眉 and the word does not have any current near-synonyms.
Modern Chinese Criteria
眉毛 眉 眼眉 娥眉 柳眉 柳葉眉 遠山眉 纖眉 黛 青黛 黛螺 粗眉 濃眉 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • EYELIDSKIN MOVING on the EYE.
Hypernym
  • HAIR　BODY-TISSUE which GROWS on SKIN, VISIBLY on the TOP of the HEAD of HUMANS, and OTHER PLACES. (anc: 6/0, child: 7)
  • BODY TISSUE　IMPORTANT NOT LIQUID SUBSTANCES IN THE BODY. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.206

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 7

    BRAUE, WIMPER, LID

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 15

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 64ff

    • Words (3 items)

    眉  méi OC: mril MC: mi 8 Attributions

    The standard word for the eyebrow is méi 眉 and the word does not have any current near-synonyms.

      Syntactic words
    • neyebrow
    麋  méi MC: mij OC: mri 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • n(= 眉) eyebrowsLZ
    娥眉  é méi OC: ŋaal mril MC: ŋɑ mi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadNmoth-eyebrowed