HEEL    腳跟踵

Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for the heel is zhǒng 踵. NB: Gēn 跟 is post-Buddhist.
Modern Chinese Criteria
腳跟 腳後跟 跟 踵 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
    Other Hypernyms
    • N/A　 (anc: 3/0, child: 85)
    • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
    • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
    • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
    • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
    • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 292

    • Words (4 items)

    踵  zhǒng OC: tjoŋʔ MC: tɕi̯oŋ 15 Attributions

    The current general word for the heel is zhǒng 踵.

      Syntactic words
    • nheel; also of shoe
    • n(post-N)one's heelsCH
    趾  zhǐ OC: kljɯʔ MC: tɕɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nheel???
    距  jù OC: ɡaʔ MC: gi̯ɤ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nheel
    跟  gēn OC: kɯɯn MC: kən 0 Attributions

    NB: Gēn 跟 is post-Han.

      Syntactic words
    • ncolloquial, late: heel; cf the modern meaning: follow on the heels