MAST    桅竿

LONG VERTICAL BEAM FOR HANGING SAILS on, IN the MIDDLE of a SHIP.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The only word for a mast, exceedingly rare, is wéi 桅. Early China was not a great sailing nation.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 COMM 29. 船上掛帆的豎杆。二詞最早見於漢代。 桅，通稱，口語性較強。 檣，書面語色彩較濃。古漢語中 “ 桅 ” 的使用少於 “ 檣 ” ；一直到明代的口語語料中， “ 桅 ” 才在使用上占優勢。
Modern Chinese Criteria
桅桿 桅杆 桅 檣 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
Hypernym
  • BEAM　LARGE TIMBER USED TO BUILD BUILDINGS. (anc: 6/0, child: 4)
  • TIMBER　SUBSTANCE OF the MAIN PART of TREES. (anc: 5/0, child: 4)
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 10.87

    • Words (2 items)

    桅  wéi OC: ŋɡuul MC: ŋuo̝i 1 Attribution

    The only word for a mast, exceedingly rare, is wéi 桅. Early China was not a great sailing nation.

      Syntactic words
    • nmast
    檣  qiáng OC: sɡaŋ MC: dzi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nWANG CAN: ship mast