CHAIN    鏈子

METAL STRING PRODUCED USING LINKED RINGS.
FETTERSSHACKLESIRONSLEG IRONSMANACLESHANDCUFFSCUFFSBRACELETSBILBOES
Old Chinese Criteria
There is not much evidence of chains in our classical texts.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鏈 鏈子 鏈條 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • STRING　A THREAD WHICH one MOVES WHEN PLAYING a STRING INSTRUMENT. (anc: 6/0, child: 1)
  • THREAD　INTENSELY LONG THIN ARTEFACT PRODUCED USING COTTON, WOOL, SILK ETC, TYPICALLY USED FOR SEWING OR TYING UP THINGS ETC.. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)

Words (2 items)

桁  háng OC: ɢaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nfoot chain
瑣  suǒ OC: soolʔ MC: sʷɑ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nchain ???