WINGS  翅膀

BODY PART OF BIRDS USED FOR FLYING.
Hypernym
  • FEATHERPART OF BIRD'S WINGS, LIGHT THINGS of HORN RESEMBLING MATERIAL COVERING the SKIN of BIRDS.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The current and general ancient word for the wings or any bird or insect is yì 翼, and typically the reference is to wings in movement.

    2. Chì 翅 is a later word referring to the wings as a general anatomic part of the animals in question with no reference to their being in movement or not.

    3. Hé 翮 refers specifically to the stem of the feathers on the wing (and the word also refers to the wing as such). See FEATHER

    NB: Chì 翅 is post-Han.

    黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
    HUANG JINGUI 2006

    ANIMALS 14. 鳥蟲收閉之翅，專稱 “ 翅 ” ； “ 翅 ” 又作鳥蟲之翅通稱。

    張展之翅專稱 “ 翼 ” ；

    先秦時也或稱以 “ 羽 ” 。

    翮，可泛稱鳥翅，

    翎，可泛稱鳥蟲之翅。

    後三詞均為代稱用法。

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    翼

    翅

    翅膀

    翅子

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    Words

    翼  yì OC: p-lɯɡ MC: jɨk 10 AttributionsWD

    The current and general ancient word for the wings or any bird or insect is yì 翼, and typically the reference is to wings in movement.

      Word relations
    • Object: 舒/STRETCH OUT Shū 舒 (ant. juǎn 卷 "roll up, fold up") is rather marginal in this group and refers specifically to reaching or spreading out in several directions without necessarily remaining continuous in the process.

      Syntactic words
    • nwings; also transferred military sense: the wings
    • nadVfrom the wings; as with wings
    羽  yǔ OC: ɢʷaʔ MC: ɦi̯o 2 AttributionsWD

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 翮/WINGS Hé 翮 refers specifically to the stem of the feathers on the wing (and the word also refers to the wing as such). See FEATHER

      Syntactic words
    • nfeathers on the wing; wing; feathers as constituting a wing
    翮  hé OC: ɡreeɡ MC: ɦɣɛk 2 AttributionsWD

    Hé 翮 refers specifically to the stem of the feathers on the wing (and the word also refers to the wing as such). See FEATHER

      Syntactic words
    • nwings; quills; pinions
    翅  chì OC: qhjes MC: ɕiɛ 1 AttributionWD

    Chì 翅 is a later word referring to the wings as a general anatomic part of the animals in question with no reference to their being in movement or not.

      Syntactic words
    • npost-Han: wings
    羽翼  yǔ yì OC: ɢʷaʔ p-lɯɡ MC: ɦi̯o jɨk 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • nfeathers and wings
    翎  líng OC: ɡ-reeŋ MC: leŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nlower feathers on tail and on wings

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