TILE  瓦

CUBE OF BURNT CLAY.
Hypernym
  • BRICKBURNT CLAY STONE USED FOR BUILDING BUILDINGS.
    • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

Modern Chinese Criteria
瓦

瓦片

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

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 732

    1. WL contrasts two rare characters for tiles which are not in BIG5.

Words

瓦  wǎ OC: ŋʷraalʔ MC: ŋɣɛ 7 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Epithet: 棺/COFFIN The current general word for the coffin is guān 棺, but this term also refers specifically to the inner coffin as opposed to what is translated as "outer coffin", the guǒ 槨. Coffins were generally made of wood and often lacquered; in Han times, stone coffins also came to use.

    Syntactic words
  • nburnt clay; earthenware; tile
甓  pì OC: beeɡ MC: bek 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nglazed tile; brick

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: