THROAT 喉嚨喉
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
Hypernym
Other Hypernyms
- Not defined (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
- PRIME (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
- (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
- N/A (anc: 3/0, child: 85)
- Not defined (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
- PRIME (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
THROAT
glutus refers to the inside of the troat in humans.
ingluvies refers to the inside of the throat in animals.
faux refers to the entrance into the throat.
guttur refers to the whole length of the throat in men or animals.
guttulia refers to the animal throat.
gulia refers to the human throat.
GULA
Words (8 items)
喉 hóu OC: ɡoo MC: ɦu 5 Attributions
The current general word for the throat is hóu 喉, but the word refers more specifically to the place where one breathes.
- Syntactic words
- nthroat
咽喉 yān hóu OC: qiin ɡoo MC: ʔen ɦu 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPpharynx and larynx > throat
咽 yān OC: qiin MC: ʔen 1 Attribution
Yān 咽 refers primarily to the place where the food passes at the opening of the throat.
- Syntactic words
- ntop of the throat where both air and food pass
頏 háng OC: ɡaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nthroat. See 吭.
亢 gāng OC: kaaŋ MC: kɑŋ 0 Attributions
- 古辭辨 Gu ci bian
(
WANG FENGYANG 1993)
p.
819.2
- Syntactic words
- nneck, throat (only Han time ex.)
吭 háng OC: ɡaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- npost-Han, late: throat (specifically of a bird)
嗌 yì OC: qleɡ MC: ʔiɛk 0 Attributions
Yì 嗌 can refer to the throat as the place where food passes in the process of eating or the place through which one breathes and is thus in a sense the most general word, but the word always remained rare.
- Syntactic words
- nthroat as place where food passes
嗓 sǎng OC: sŋaaŋʔ MC: sɑŋ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nmodern colloquial: throat