BARK    吠吠

LOUD ANIMAL SOUND PRODUCED by DOGS.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for barking is fèi 吠. NB: There are no current competing words in the vocabulary of classical Chinese, but SHUOWEN has a whole series of words most of which are so uncommon that they are not in the BIG5 font.
Modern Chinese Criteria
吠 吠叫 汪 汪汪 狗叫 吠聲 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • SOUNDWHAT CAN be HEARD.
Hypernym
  • ANIMAL SOUNDS　SOUND PRODUCED by ANIMALS. (anc: 11/0, child: 1)
  • SOUND　WHAT CAN be HEARD. (anc: 10/0, child: 7)
  • HEAR　PERCEIVE SOUND. (anc: 9/0, child: 1)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    BARK

    latrare refers to the hostile bark of a dog.

    gannire refers to the harmless barking of a little dog showing pleasure by barking.

    baubari refers to the whining or howling of a dow.

    • Words (4 items)

    吠  fèi OC: bods MC: bi̯ɐi 12 Attributions

    1. The current word for barking is fèi 吠.

      Word relations
    • Subject: 狗/DOG Gǒu 狗is a colloquial word for a dog (according to some early commentators a small dog, and it is plausible that the colloquial word may have referred to the small dog in particular).

      Syntactic words
    • nabactbarking (typically of dogs)
    • vadNbarking
    • viact(of dogs) bark
    • vt(oN)bark at the object clear from the context
    • vtoNbark at
    猩猩  xīng xīng OC: seeŋ seeŋ MC: seŋ seŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPiactSHUOWEN: bark (like a dog)
    汪  wāng OC: qʷaaŋ MC: ʔɑŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vionomatopoeiapost-Han, late: barking sound
    猥  wěi OC: quulʔ MC: ʔuo̝i 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viSHUOWEN: bark