Hypernym

• INNARDSINNER ORGAN of HUMANS OR ANIMALS.
  • ORGANBODY PART used for BASIC FUNCTIONS of LIFE.
    • N/A

See also

• MINDABSTRACT ORGAN of DESIRING, THINKING, FEELing AND KNOWING in HUMANS OR ANIMALS.
• MINDABSTRACT ORGAN of DESIRING, THINKING, FEELing AND KNOWING in HUMANS OR ANIMALS.

Old Chinese Criteria

Modern Chinese Criteria

• A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.44

• Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 227

  COEUR

• Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 665

  KER

• A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 325

• Die Seele und das Ich ( J.BOEHME) p. 6-8;65ff

  See CHANTRAINE 1989:418 on Greek EETOR "heart"

• Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremmenogo russkogo jazyka. Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian ( Mel'cuk 1984) p. 731

• Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du francais contemporain, vol. I ( Mel'cuk I) p. 68

  M mentions a range of non-trivial derived meaning of the French word which the Chinese word shares:

  1. chest area

  2. imaginary organ of the sentiments

  3. imaginary organ of the intuition

  4. core of a personality

  But in pre-modern Chinese we never have "the heart of the problem", which seems to be a modern parlance, probably a Western loan via Japanese.

• Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.1629

• Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

• Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.281

• 觀念的對比分析 ( YANG MINGTIAN 2009) p. 261

  DUSHA, SERDCE