PISSPOT    便壺

VESSEL USED FOR KEEPING URINE.
CHAMBER POT
Old Chinese Criteria
1. There was no pissoir in ancient China. The hǔ zǐ 虎子 was a colloquial term for a tiger-shape flask into which to urinate in one's bedroom. NB: Terms like mǎtǒng 馬桶 and mǎzǐ 馬子 as well as biànhú 便壺 are all late.
Modern Chinese Criteria
便壺 夜壺 尿壺 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • TOILETROOM or BUILDING USED FOR DEFECATION.
Hypernym
  • VESSEL　HARD CONTAINER USED FOR PUTTING SUBSTANCES INTO it. (anc: 6/0, child: 11)
  • CONTAINER　ARTEFACT PRODUCED TO CONTAIN THINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)

Words (4 items)

便壺  biàn hú OC: bens ɢaa MC: biɛn ɦuo̝ 0 Attributions

Terms for urinal like mǎtǒng 馬桶 and mǎzǐ 馬子 as well as biànhú 便壺 are all late.

    Syntactic words
馬桶  mǎ tǒng OC: mraaʔ kh-looŋʔ MC: mɣɛ thuŋ 0 Attributions

Terms for urinal like mǎtǒng 馬桶 and mǎzǐ 馬子 as well as biànhú 便壺 are all late.

    Syntactic words
虎子  hǔ zǐ OC: qhlaaʔ sklɯʔ MC: huo̝ tsɨ 0 Attributions

There was no pissoir in ancient China. The hǔ zǐ 虎子 was a colloquial term for a tiger-shape flask into which to urinate in one's bedroom.

    Syntactic words
  • NPHan colloquial: pisspot (illustration in HYDCD 801)
馬子  mǎ zǐ OC: mraaʔ sklɯʔ MC: mɣɛ tsɨ 0 Attributions

Terms for urinal like mǎtǒng 馬桶 and mǎzǐ 馬子 as well as biànhú 便壺 are all late.

    Syntactic words