DEAF    聾

LACK the ABILITY to HEAR.
HEARING IMPAIREDHARD OF HEARINGINFORMAL DEAF AS A POST
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for deafness of any kind, congenital or not, is lóng 聾 (ant. tīng 聽 "able to hear"). 2. Kuì 聵 refers to congenital deafness of any kind, but the word is very rare.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 BODY 22. 聾，通稱，凡耳朵聽不見或聽不清聲音都稱作聾。 聵，耳重聽。 聳，雙耳聾。 ?? ，半聾。 ?? ，全聾。 背，近代口語用詞，表示聽覺不靈。 耾，耳鳴。
Modern Chinese Criteria
聾 背 聵 耳朵重 耳背 耳沉 重聽 失聰 聾子 聾耳人 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • HEARPERCEIVE SOUND.
See also
  • BLINDLACK the ABILITY to SEE.
  • ILLNESSTYPICALLY TEMPORARY DEFECT of the BODY OR MIND of HUMANS OR of the BODY of ANIMALS.
Hypernym
  • LACK　SITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE. (anc: 6/0, child: 48)
  • SITUATION　RELATION in which MANY HUMANS, FEATURES OR THINGS EXIST TOGETHER OR INTERACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 11)
  • RELATION　FEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER. (anc: 4/0, child: 15)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.95

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.935

    • Words (4 items)

    聾  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 22 Attributions

    The general word for deafness of any kind, congenital or not, is lóng 聾 (ant. tīng 聽 "able to hear").

      Word relations
    • Inconsist: 聽/LISTEN The current word for listening is tīng 聽, the nuance often being listening to and at the same time taking note of as sound advice etc.
    • Ant: 聰/HEAR
    • Assoc: 瘖 / 喑/DUMB The general term for phenomena of dumbness of any kind, lasting or not, is yīn 喑／瘖
    • Assoc: 盲/BLIND The standard word referring to blindness came to be máng 盲 (ant. míng 明 "endowed with clear sight"), but the word can also refer specifically to colour-blindness in pre-Han times.

      Syntactic words
    • nabfeaturedeafness
    • v[adN]nonreferentialthe deaf
    • vibe hard of hearing, deaf
    • vichangebecome deaf
    • vifigurativedeaf > ignorant, stupid
    挶  jū OC: koɡ MC: ki̯ok 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nabfeature????hardness of hearing
    聳  sǒng OC: soŋʔ MC: si̯oŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • videaf in both ears
    聵  kuì OC: ŋɡruuds MC: ŋɣɛi 0 Attributions

    Kuì 聵 refers to congenital deafness of any kind, but the word is very rare.

      Syntactic words
    • vibe congenitally deaf