BRAIN    腦子

SOFT BODY TISSUE INSIDE THE HEAD.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Nǎo 腦 is the standard word for the physiological substance of the brain, and there is no reference to the brain as the seat of thought or intelligence.
Modern Chinese Criteria
腦子 腦海 腦 腦力 頭腦 腦筋 腦瓜子 腦袋瓜兒 腦袋 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
Hypernym
  • 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)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.203

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.1365

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 58

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

    • Words (1 items)

    腦  nǎo OC: nuuʔ MC: nɑu 6 Attributions

      Syntactic words
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