DEAF  聾

LACK the ABILITY to HEAR.
HEARING IMPAIREDHARD OF HEARINGINFORMAL DEAF AS A POST
Antonym
  • HEARPERCEIVE SOUND.
    Hypernym
    • LACKSITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE.
      • SITUATIONRELATION in which MANY HUMANS, FEATURES OR THINGS EXIST TOGETHER OR INTERACT.
        • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER.
          • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
    See also
    • BLINDLACK the ABILITY to SEE.
      • ILLNESSTYPICALLY TEMPORARY DEFECT of the BODY OR MIND of HUMANS OR of the BODY of ANIMALS.
        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 ／

        • 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

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

        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 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • nabfeature????hardness of hearing
        聳  sǒng OC: soŋʔ MC: si̯oŋ 0 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • videaf in both ears
        聵  kuì OC: ŋɡruuds MC: ŋɣɛi 0 AttributionsWD

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

          Syntactic words
        • vibe congenitally deaf

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