WINGS    翅膀

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 ／
Part of
Hypernym
    Other Hypernyms
    • N/A　 (anc: 3/0, child: 85)
    • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
    • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
    • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
    • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
    • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.392

  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 435

  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 45

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.175

  • 東漢﹣隨常用詞演變研究 ( WANG WEIHUI 2000) p. 65

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 971

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 183

    • Words (6 items)

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

    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
    翮  hé OC: ɡreeɡ MC: ɦɣɛk 2 Attributions

    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
    羽  yǔ OC: ɢʷaʔ MC: ɦi̯o 2 Attributions

      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
    羽翼  yǔ yì OC: ɢʷaʔ p-lɯɡ MC: ɦi̯o jɨk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nfeathers and wings
    翅  chì OC: qhjes MC: ɕiɛ 1 Attribution

    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
    翎  líng OC: ɡ-reeŋ MC: leŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nlower feathers on tail and on wings