LEG  足1

LIMB ABOVE and INCLUDING the FOOT
Hypernym
  • LIMBBODY PART OTHER than the TORSO.
  • ANKLEThe JOINT BETWEEN FOOT AND LEG.
    • FOOTMOST LOW HORIZONTAL PART of the LEG.
      • KNEEBIG JOINT in the MIDDLE of the LEG.
        • THIGHPART of the LEG ABOVE THE KNEE.
          Old Chinese Criteria
          1. The current general word for the leg as a whole is the same as that for the foot, zú 足, but the word can also be used in a broader meaning including the shin.

          2. Jiǎo 腳 is an exceedingly rare colloquial word for the foot but can occasionally be used to refer also to the shin.

          NB: Tuǐ 腿 is late colloquial (MING).

          黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
          HUANG JINGUI 2006

          HUMAN BODY 39.

          足,人體下肢的總稱。

          股,大腿。

          脛,小腿。

          腳,本是小腿,口語中也指整條腿;專指腳掌。

          腿,大腿和小腿的總稱。趾(止),腳掌最早的稱呼。

          Words

            zú OC: tsoɡ MC: tsi̯ok 10 AttributionsWD

          The current general word for the leg as a whole is the same as that for the foot, zú 足, but the word can also be used in a broader meaning including the shin.

            Word relations
          • Oppos: 色/FACE Sè 色 refers specifically to the face as expressive of mood and emotion.

            Syntactic words
          • nleg
          • nc{PRED}post-V{NUM}have V{NUM} legsLZ
            jiǎo OC: kaɡ MC: ki̯ɐk 5 AttributionsWD

          Jiǎo 腳 is an exceedingly rare colloquial word for the foot but can occasionally be used to refer also to the shin.

            Syntactic words
          • nin pre-Han and Han, colloquial: foot and shin; post-Han: foot
          • nadVinstrumenton the legs
          • nfigurativeleg of a vessel, table, chair etc
            jǐ OC: kralʔ MC: kiɛ 2 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nfoot; leg
            jìng MC: hengX OC: ɡeeŋʔCH 2 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nlegCH
            zuǒ MC: tsaX OC: skaalʔLZ 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • nleft legLZ
            fěi OC: pɯlʔ MC: pɨi 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nleg
            kuā OC: khʷraa MC: khɣɛ 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • ncrutch 兩股之間。《史記·淮陰侯列傳》:" 信 至國……召辱己之少年令出胯下者,以為 楚 中尉。"參見" 胯下 "
            tuǐ OC: thuulʔ MC: thuo̝i 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • ncolloquial: leg

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