CHIN  下巴頤

MOST LOW PART of the FACE BELOW the MOUTH.
JAW
Hypernym
See also
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most current and the most general word for the lower part of the face is yí 頤, but the word does include the cheeks. See CHEEK.

2. Hàn 頷 is used to refer to the jaw of a dragon, but the word is rare in ancient texts and hard to fix semantically with any precision.

3. Hǎi 頦 is post-Buddhist (TANG) colloquial.

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HUANG JINGUI 2006

HUMAN BODY 38. 下巴。

頷，兼骨頭和肌肉組織而言，通稱。

頦，有口語色彩。

頤，連口周圍的組織，包括兩腮和下巴，偏重於頰腮。

Modern Chinese Criteria
頦

下巴

下頜

下巴頦兒

頷

頤

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. 4.207

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.209

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    JAW

    mala refers to the upper jaw.

    maxilla refers to the lower jaw.

  • 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

    CHIN

  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 530

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 272

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. NO

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.153

  • 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. 7A

Words

頤  yí OC: k-lɯ MC: jɨ 5 AttributionsWD

The most current and the most general word for the lower part of the face is yí 頤. See CHEEK.

    Syntactic words
  • nlower part of the face, including the chin as well as the cheeks
頷  hàn OC: ɡlɯɯmʔ MC: ɦəm 2 AttributionsWD

Hàn 頷 is used to refer to the jaw of a dragon, but the word is rare in ancient texts and hard to fix semantically with any precision.

    Syntactic words
  • nchin, jaw (especially of dragon)
頦  hái OC: ɡɯɯ MC: ɦəi 0 AttributionsWD

Kē 頦 is post-Buddhist (TANG) colloquial.

    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han:: chin
頰車  jiá chē OC: keeb khlja MC: kep tɕhɣɛ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N]the jaws of a contextually determinate animal N

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