ANT    螞蟻

SMALL INSECT LIVING IN LARGE COOPERATive GROUPS (Hymenopterous order)
黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006
Modern Chinese Criteria
蟻 螞蟻 蚍蜉 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
Hypernym
  • INSECT SMALL ANIMAL LACKING SPINE, TYPICALLY WITH MANY LEGS AND WINGS. [] (anc: 6/0, child: 10)
  • ANIMAL CREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE. (anc: 5/0, child: 12)
  • CREATURE LIVING THING. (anc: 4/0, child: 3)
  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2.1146

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1153

  • Words (4 items)

      yǐ OC: ŋralʔ MC: ŋiɛ 7 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 垤/HEAP Dié 垤 refers specifically to an anthill, and then more generally to any small heap of earth.

      Syntactic words
    • nant
    蟻子  yǐ zǐ OC: ŋralʔ sklɯʔ MC: ŋiɛ tsɨ 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPant
      yǐ OC: ŋralʔ MC: ŋiɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • n蛾 ant (old character for yǐ 蟻) (Note that in post Han literature the character is no more used to write the word yǐ 蟻 "ant"
    • nadVlike ants > in a huge amountDS
      yǐ OC: ŋɡralʔ MC: ŋiɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • DELETEant