SKULL  腦殼

BONES of the HEAD of a DEAD BODY.
Hypernym
  • HEADLIMB CONTAINING EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH.
    • LIMBBODY PART OTHER than the TORSO.
See also
  • BRAINSOFT BODY TISSUE INSIDE THE HEAD.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. Tóu 頭 refers generally to the skeleton of the head.

    2. Dú lóu 髑髏 refers to the skeleton head of a dead person.

    3. Lú 顱 "cranium" is a term current in the medical literature, and the word probably always had something of an anatomical stylistic flavour.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    頭

    頭顱

    腦袋

    腦袋瓜子

    腦瓜子

    腦瓜兒

    腦殼

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.202

    • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 58

    Words

    頭  tóu OC: doo MC: du 6 AttributionsWD

    Tóu 頭 refers generally to the skeleton of the head.

      Syntactic words
    • nSKULL
    髑髏  dú lóu OC: dooɡ ɡ-roo MC: duk lu 5 AttributionsWD

    Dú lóu 髑髏 refers to the skeleton head of a dead person.

      Syntactic words
    • NPZHUANG: skull [note the assonance in this name: repetition of "oo"]
    首  shǒu MC: syuwX OC: qhljuʔCH 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • nskullCH
    顱  lú OC: ɡ-raa MC: luo̝ 0 AttributionsWD

    Lú 顱 "cranium" is a term current in the medical literature, and the word probably always had something of an anatomical stylistic flavour.

      Syntactic words
    • nZGC, LINGSHU: skull
    髏  lóu OC: ɡ-roo MC: lu 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nskull 髑髏
    髑  dú OC: dooɡ MC: duk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nskull

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