ARCHERY  箭術

SPORT of SHOOTING at a TARGET USING BOW AND ARROW.
Hypernym
  • SPORTSGAME of USING THE BODY IN COMPETITION WITH OTHERS.
    • GAMECUSTOM of PLAYING.
      • CUSTOMREPEATED ACT CONFORMING to what is a COMMON RULE in one's GROUP.
        • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision....
Old Chinese Criteria
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

1. The dominant general term is shè 射 and this word refers to all kinds of shooting with a bow, particularly ritualised archery, and the word refers to all parts of the process of shooting.

[GENERAL]

2. Yì 弋 refers to (often ritualised) shooting for pleasure at birds with a short arrow with strings attached.

[SPECIFIC]

3. Fā 發 refers specifically to letting off an arrow as the final act of the shooting process. See SHOOT

Modern Chinese Criteria
箭術

射箭

first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL. 18.11.2003. CH/

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 203

    Bogenschuetze:

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 728

    Bogenschuetze:

    Common theme in Han reliefs.

Words

射  shè OC: ɢljaɡs MC: ʑɣɛ 20 AttributionsWD

The dominant general term is shè 射and this word refers to all kinds of shooting with a bow, particularly ritualised archery. [GENERAL]

    Word relations
  • Object: 學/STUDY The dominant word is xué 學 (ant. jiào 教 "train teach")which refers primarily to studying or training under another person, and secondarily to the learning by heart texts. Very often, the word retains a tinge of immitation.
  • Oppos: 御 / 馭/DRIVE Yù 御 refers to the driving and steering of a carriage.

    Syntactic words
  • nabactthe ritual art of archeryCH
  • nabart ofart of archery
  • v[adN]OBI 3: archer, practioner of the art of archery
  • v[adN]N=humarcher
  • viactengage in archery
  • vtoNN=arrowshoot in archery contest (arrow); shoot off (an arrow)
  • vtoNobject=targetshoot at (target)
弋  yì OC: lɯɡ MC: jɨk 12 AttributionsWD

Yì 弋 refers to (often ritualised) shooting for pleasure at birds with a short arrow with strings attached. [SPECIFIC]

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 罼 / 畢/NET Luó 羅 , wǎng 罔／網, bì 畢, fú 罘, and jū 罝 (small) are current words for bird nets which can also be used to catch small animals like hares. [Bì 畢 was probably of Y-like shape, and consisted of small net and long handle. The word wǎng 罔／網 is probably only archaic variant of wǎng 网. In SHIJING, the word is used also for a fish net. Fú 罘 can be also used to catch large animals like deers.

  • 漢代無知文化資料圖說 ( SUN JI) p. {20-11}

    Syntactic words
  • nabactthe hunting of birds with stringed short arrows
  • viactshoot birds with stringed short arrows
  • vtoNactshoot (short arrow with string attached)
控弦  kòng xián OC: khooŋs ɡeen MC: khuŋ ɦen 4 AttributionsWD

Kòng xián 控弦 is another term for pulling a bowstring.

    Syntactic words
  • VP[adN]professional archer
決  jué OC: kʷeed MC: ket 1 AttributionWD

Jué 決 is a ring made of bone which protects ones finger when shooting. It can also refer to pulling a bow.

    Syntactic words
  • nfinger-protectors, protecting devices for the finger with which to pull the string of bow???
射者  shè zhě MC: zyaeH tsyaeX OC: ɢljaɡs kljaʔCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NParcher, specialist in archeryCH
引弓  yǐn gōng OC: liŋʔ kʷɯŋ MC: jin kuŋ 0 AttributionsWD

Yǐn gōng 引弓 also refers to pulling a bow.

    Syntactic words
  • VPiactpull the bow
引繳  yǐn jiǎo OC: liŋʔ kleewʔ MC: jin keu 0 AttributionsWD

Yǐn jiǎo 引繳 is a specific term for shooting birds in flight with a bow.

    Syntactic words
  • VPiactshoot birds in flight with a bow
彎弧  wān hú OC: qroon ɡʷaa MC: ʔɣan ɦuo̝ 0 AttributionsWD

Wān hú 彎弧 is pulling a bow as one regards the bow.

    Syntactic words
  • VPiactpull the bow as one regards the bow????
牽弓  qiān gōng OC: khiin kʷɯŋ MC: khen kuŋ 0 AttributionsWD

Qiān gōng 牽弓 refers to pulling a bow so see how flexible it is.

    Syntactic words
  • VPiactpull a bow so see how flexible it is

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