PILLOW    枕頭

OFTEN (BUT NOT ALWAYS!) SOFT ARTEFACT USED TO SUPPORT the HEAD of SLEEPING HUMANS.
CUSHIONBOLSTERPADHEADREST
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a pillow is zhěn 枕, and I have not found any current near-synonyms.
Modern Chinese Criteria
枕頭 枕 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • BEDFURNITURE ON which one SLEEPS.
Hypernym
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    PILLOW

    culcita is a hard-stuffed pillow.

    pulvinus is a soft elastic pillow.

    • Words (2 items)

    枕  zhěn OC: kljumʔ MC: tɕim 13 Attributions

    The standard word for a pillow is zhěn 枕, and I have not found any current near-synonyms.

      Syntactic words
    • npillow
    • vtoNread zhèn: use as a pillow
    • vttoN1.+N2read zhe4n: put N1 on N2 as a pillow
    藉  jiè MC: dzjaeH OC: -- 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtt(oN1.) N2bed the contextually determinate N1 on N2CH