IVORY    象牙

SUBSTANCE of LARGE ELEPHANT TEETH USED FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTS.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006
Modern Chinese Criteria
象牙 牙 is normally adnominal. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • 中國文化史三百題 ( SANBAITI 1987) p. 321

    • Words (2 items)

    象  xiàng OC: sɢlaŋʔ MC: zi̯ɐŋ 13 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nmivory
    • nmadNmade of ivory; more generally: sculpted 象箸
    齒  chǐ OC: khljɯʔ MC: tɕhɨ 5 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 角/HORN The current general term refering to a horn is jiǎo 角.

      Syntactic words
    • nmivory