FOOTPRINT    足跡

TRACE PRODUCED by a FOOT ON a SURFACE.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a footprint or even more abstractly of a trace left is jī 跡, which should be written with rad. 162. 2. Wǔ 武 refers to the footprint as a standard of length. 3. Zōng 蹤 refers literally to footprints.
Modern Chinese Criteria
蹤跡 蹤 躅 行蹤 行跡 腳跡 足跡 腳印 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
Hypernym
  • TRACE　IMAGE:sign IN a PLACE of something that in the PAST has BE-IN:been in THIS PLACE. (anc: 6/0, child: 3)
  • SYMBOL　ARTEFACT USED FOR REFERRING to something INTENSELY DIFFERENT from that ARTEFACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 13)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1427

    蹟，跡，蹤

  • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 505

    • Words (7 items)

    跡  jì, jī OC: sklaɡ MC: tsiɛk 19 AttributionsWD

    The standard word for a footprint or even more abstractly of a trace left is jī 跡, which should be written with rad. 162.

      Syntactic words
    • nfigurativetraces
    • npost-Nfootprint; traces (some examples have to be moved to n(post-N) because that N can be omitted
    武  wǔ OC: mbaʔ MC: mi̯o 3 AttributionsWD

    Wǔ 武 refers to the footprint as a standard of length.

      Syntactic words
    • nfootprint; length of one standard foot; a pace
    蹤跡  zōng jì, jī OC: tsoŋ sklaɡ MC: tsi̯oŋ tsiɛk 3 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPfootprint
    • NPfigurativetraces
    踵武  zhǒng wǔ OC: tjoŋʔ mbaʔ MC: tɕi̯oŋ mi̯o 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPfigurativefootprints
    蹤  zōng OC: tsoŋ MC: tsi̯oŋ 1 AttributionWD

    Zōng 蹤 refers literally to footprints.

      Syntactic words
    • nSJ, literally: footprints (> traces)
    蹤  zōng OC: tsoŋ MC: tsi̯oŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nfootprint
    迒  háng OC: ɡaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nfootprint of an animal