BREAST    乳房

PAIR of BODY PARTS on the CHEST of WOMEN.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard term for the breast is apparently rǔ 乳, but since the breast of the woman was exceedingly rarely referred to in the non-excavated literature, it is hard to be sure whether the word was not something of a taboo in dignified discourse. Only Zhuangzi breaks the taboo. See NIPPLE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
乳房 乳 奶 奶子 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • UDDER　BREAST of an ANIMAL, TYPICALLY A BOVINE. (anc: 4/0, child: 0)
Part of
Hypernym
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.40

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.41

  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 382

    372. Ex Etymolog. lib. XI, cap. 1.

    Ibid. In Editione Grialii erat mammillas. [AREV.]

    ]

    372. Inter Mamillas et mammas, et ubera. Mamillae virorum sunt, mammae mulierum, ubera pecorum [ Al., pecudum]. Papillae autem sunt nuclea summa mammarum, quae sugentes comprehendunt.

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    BREAST

    mamma refers to the visible breast as a fleshy part of the body, mostly of females.

    uber refers to nourishing breast as filled with milk, which is only found in the femal body.

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 102

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.667

    • Words (2 items)

    乳  rǔ OC: njoʔ MC: ȵi̯o 2 Attributions

    The standard term for the breast is rǔ 乳.

      Syntactic words
    • n(women's or men's) breast; animal's udder
    嬭  nǎi OC: mrleelʔ MC: ɳɣɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nbreasts; milk of breasts