URINATE  

DEFECATE so as to CAUSE the BLADDER TO BECOME EMPTY.
PISSRELIEVE ONESELFPASS WATERMAKE WATERINFORMAL PEETAKE A LEAKPIDDLETINKLE(TAKE A) WHIZPISSFORMAL MICTURATE
Hypernym
  • DEFECATEISSUE NATURALLY what IS-IN one's INNARDS AND BLADDER.
    • ISSUESEND OUT.
      • SENDCOMMAND OR CAUSE something OR someone to MOVE OR BE MOVED to a PLACE.
        • COMMANDADDRESS someone, USING AUTHORITY, INTENDING to CAUSE that person to ACT RESEMBLE:as one INTENDS him to ACT....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard neutral term for urination is niào 尿／溺.

2. Sī 私 is polite and periphrastic for (apparently predominantly male) urination.

3. Xiǔ 滫 is a rare word for urination the semantic nuance of which is not easy to ascertain.

黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

BODY 14. 泌尿系統疾病。

?? ，淋病的早期之稱。

癃，多指小便不通。

淋（痳），指小便頻數淋瀝澀痛。

?? ，指陰器（睾丸、疝囊、子宮）腫大下墜，從下墜而名。

疝，北宋後由腹疾而專指陰囊睾丸或腫或痛、女子子宮下垂之病，從腫脹之形而名。

蠱，男性少腹鬱熱疼痛而尿出白濁之病。

BODY 44.

便，是漢以來表示排泄二便的通稱，有口語色彩。

溲，也是排泄二便，有書面語特色。

遺，不能控制地排泄二便和精液。

溺，口語中解小便的專用詞，和隨地而便的 “ 便 ” 相反，溺是有目標（擇地）解小便。

私、旋，均指男子解小便，只是私比旋普遍。

解，近代方言中表示排泄二便的口語詞。

Modern Chinese Criteria
小便

小解

撒尿

尿尿

起夜

尿

小水

方個小便（！）

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.65

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • nm : 2
  • vi : 1
  • vtoN : 1

Attributions by text

  • 莊子 : 1
  • 韓非子 : 1
  • 荀子 : 1
  • 祖堂集 : 1

Words

利  lì OC: rids MC: li 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNurinate on
尿  niào OC: neews MC: neu
尿  niào OC:  MC: neu 1 AttributionWD

The standard neutral term for urination is niào 尿／溺.

    Word relations

    Syntactic words
  • nmurine
  • viurinate
  • viacturinate
  • vtoNurinate on
溲  sōu OC: sru MC: ʂɨu 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • viactto urinate
滫  xiǔ OC: sqlɯwʔ MC: sɨu 1 AttributionWD

Xiǔ 滫 is a rare word for urination the semantic nuance of which is not easy to ascertain.

    Syntactic words
  • nmurine
  • viacturinate XUN
旋  xuán OC: sɢlon MC: ziɛn 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • viurinate
私  sī OC: sil MC: si 0 AttributionsWD

Sī 私 is polite and periphrastic for (apparently predominantly male) urination.

    Syntactic words
  • viactZUO: periphrastic for: urinate (of males)

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