YAWN    打呵欠

BREATHE out INTENSELY AND INVOLUNTARILY, OFTEN:typically BECAUSE one is TIRED.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006
Modern Chinese Criteria
打呵欠 is the current modern word for yawning. 打哈欠 is a variant of the above. 欠伸 focusses on the stretching of the body which typically accompanies yawning. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • BREATHE　DISPLACE AIR so as to FILL the LUNGS with AIR AND THEN CAUSE the LUNGS TO BECOME EMPTY of that AIR in order to SURVIVE. (anc: 12/0, child: 5)
  • DISPLACE　CAUSE to MOVE. (anc: 11/0, child: 28)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.52

    • Words (1 items)

    欠  qiàn OC: khoms MC: khi̯ɐm 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viactyawn (LIJI); open the mouth