LEG    腳足1

LIMB ABOVE and INCLUDING the FOOT
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。
Part of
Hypernym
  • LIMB　BODY PART OTHER than the TORSO. (anc: 3/0, child: 3)
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
Other Hypernyms
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.35

  • 韓非子同義詞研究 ( HANFEI TONGYI 2004) p. 55

  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 550/553

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 147

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 218

  • 東漢﹣隨常用詞演變研究 ( WANG WEIHUI 2000) p. 40

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 127

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1351

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 65ff

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 95

    • Words (8 items)

    足  zú OC: tsoɡ MC: tsi̯ok 10 Attributions

    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
    腳  jiǎo OC: kaɡ MC: ki̯ɐk 5 Attributions

    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
    脛  jìng MC: hengX OC: ɡeeŋʔ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nlegCH
    踦  jǐ OC: kralʔ MC: kiɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nfoot; leg
    左  zuǒ MC: tsaX OC: skaalʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nleft legLZ
    胯  kuā OC: khʷraa MC: khɣɛ 0 Attributions
      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 "
    腿  tuǐ OC: thuulʔ MC: thuo̝i 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncolloquial: leg
    篚  fěi OC: pɯlʔ MC: pɨi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nleg