COMB  梳子

TOOL USED FOR CAUSING HAIR to BECOME STRAIGHT.
Hypernym
  • TOOLARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD.
    • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
See also
  • HAIRSTYLEMETHOD of FIXING HAIR and HEADGEAR.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The standard ancient word for a comb is jié 櫛 in Han times. Combs can be made of wood, bone, bamboo, horn or ivory.

    2. Shū 梳 is a rare word in antiquity which first became current in Han times, according to SHUOWEN, the term should refer to the comb with teeth far apart.

    3. Tì 揥 refers to the comb-pin, which in early times are usually made of ivory:

    4. Bì ｂｉ (FIND CHARACTER IN UNICODE) is a term for the comb with teeth close together; in SHUOWEN called bǐ 比.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    梳頭

    梳理

    梳

    攏

    櫛

    梳篦 (lit) refers to thick and fine combs.

    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. 6.91

    • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 100

    Words

    櫛  zhì OC: tsriɡ MC: ʈʂɪt 14 Attributions

    The standard ancient word for a comb is zhì 櫛 in Han times. Combs can be made of wood, bone, bamboo, horn or ivory.

      Syntactic words
    • nSHI: comb
    • viactto comb
    揥  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions

    Tì 揥 refers to the comb-pin, which in early times are usually made of ivory:

    • [100 page synonym dictionary which I have in Oslo and shall identify.CH] ( XIANG 1997) p. 638 - 639

      Syntactic words
    • ncomb-pin
    梳  shū OC: sqra MC: ʂi̯ɤ 0 Attributions

    Shū 梳 is a rare word in antiquity which first became current in Han times, according to SHUOWEN, the term should refer to the comb with teeth far apart.

      Syntactic words
    • nHan, Cui Shi: a comb with teeth far apart
    • vt[oN]to comb hair
    • vtoNto comb
    篦  bì OC: pii MC: pei 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Han, Tang: comb with teeth close together [in the SHUOWEN called bǐ 比: see ZHGD 1993: 227] [JM]
    梳子  shū zǐ OC: sqra sklɯʔ MC: ʂi̯ɤ tsɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcomb

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: