SPINE    脊背背

SEQUENCE OF BONES FROM NECK TO ABDOMEN AND THE BODY PART SURROUNDING IT.
BACKBONESPINAL COLUMNVERTEBRAL COLUMNBACKTECHNICAL RACHIS
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general term for the back of a person or an animal is bèi 背. 2. Jǐ 脊 and the much rarer lu# 膂 / 呂 refer specifically to the spine of vertebrates.
Modern Chinese Criteria
背 背脊 脊背 脊梁 脊 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
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Hypernym
  • BONE　INTENSELY HARD BODY TISSUE. (anc: 6/0, child: 3)
  • BODY TISSUE　IMPORTANT NOT LIQUID SUBSTANCES IN THE BODY. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.19

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 347

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 263

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 124

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 95

  • 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. 8A

    • Words (4 items)

    背  bèi OC: pɯɯɡs MC: puo̝i 8 Attributions

    The general term for the back of a person or an animal is bèi 背.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 鄉/DIRECTION Xiāng 鄉 refers to a direction as seen from a subject.

      Syntactic words
    • nback
    • nadNconducted behind one's back
    • nadVbehind one's back, behind the back
    • npost-Nspine of NDS
    脊  jǐ OC: tseɡ MC: tsiɛk 8 Attributions

    Jǐ 脊and the much rarer lu# 膂/呂 refer specifically to the spine of vertebrates.

      Syntactic words
    • nspine
    龜  jiū OC: kʷɯ MC: kɨu
    龜  guī OC: kʷrɯ MC: ki
    龜  jiū OC: kʷɯ MC: kɨu
    龜  guī OC: kʷrɯ MC: ki 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nhighest part of the spine (e.g. of a deer)
    呂  lǚ OC: raʔ MC: li̯ɤ 0 Attributions

    Jǐ 脊and the much rarer lu# 膂/呂 refer specifically to the spine of vertebrates.

      Syntactic words
    • nspine, backbone