CHIMNEY  煙囪

TUBE OR HOLE IN a ROOF THROUGH which SMOKE LEAVES a STOVE.
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Hypernym
  • TUBEINTENSELY LONG HOLE which has THIN WALLS.
    • HOLEEMPTY SPACE in a SURFACE.
      • SPACEWhat ALL THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
        • BE INRELATION between a THING AND what that THING FILLS OR PART:partially FILLS....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. There is only one term for a chimney, tū 突, and archeological evidence suggests that the chimney took the form of a hole in the roof.

NB: Words like cōng 囪 and yān cōng 煙囪 are all late.

Modern Chinese Criteria
煙囪 yāncong is the current modern word for a chimney.

煙筒

煙突

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. 7.33

Words

突  tū OC: duud MC: duot 0 AttributionsWD

There is only one term for a chimney, tū 突, and archeological evidence suggests that the chimney took the form of a hole in the roof.

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