LIMB  肢體肢

BODY PART OTHER than the TORSO.
MEMBERARMLEGAPPENDAGEARCHAIC MEMBER
Hypernym
  • JOINTBODY PART IN which BONES MEET AND CAN CHANGE POSITION IN-RELATION-TO MUTUAL:each other.
    Hyponym
    • ARM　The LIMB BETWEEN SHOULDER AND the HAND of ANIMALS. 
      • HEAD　LIMB CONTAINING EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH.
        • SKULL　BONES of the HEAD of a DEAD BODY.
      • LEG　LIMB ABOVE and INCLUDING the FOOT
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. The current word for a limb is zhī 肢.

        2. Tǐ 體 refers (often collectively) to the limbs of the body, and it must be noted that the head counts as one tǐ 體 in the xíng 形 "body", but there is also a closely related usage where the word refers quite generally to the parts of the body as in bǎi tǐ 百體.

        Modern Chinese Criteria
        肢

        肢體

        四體

        四肢

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

        • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

          LIMB

          membrum refers to a limb of the body itself.

          artus refers properly only to the joint of a limb.

        • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 479

        • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 126

        • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.324

        Words

        肢  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ
        枝  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ
        支  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ 8 AttributionsWD

        The current word for a limb is zhī 肢.

          Word relations
        • Assoc: 體/LIMB Tǐ 體 refers (often collectively) to the limbs of the body, and it must be noted that the head counts as one tǐ 體 in the xíng 形 "body", but there is also a closely related usage where the word refers quite generally to the parts of the body as in bǎi tǐ 百體.

          Syntactic words
        • n=肢　limb； 四肢 "the four limbs (excluding head)"
        • vt+prep+Nderivedgrow an extra limb onCH
        體  tǐ OC: rʰiiʔ MC: thei 7 AttributionsWD

        Tǐ 體 refers (often collectively) to the limbs of the body, and it must be noted that the head counts as one tǐ 體 in the xíng 形 "body", but there is also a closely related usage where the word refers quite generally to the parts of the body as in bǎi tǐ 百體.

          Word relations
        • Assoc: 肢 / 枝 / 支/LIMB The current word for a limb is zhī 肢.
        • Oppos: 心/MIND The general word for the mental sphere of man is xīn 心 "HEART> mind" (ant. xíng 形 "physical shape, body", tǐ 體 "limbs, body").

          Syntactic words
        • nplurallimbs including the head; also: body parts generally 四體，五體，百體
        支體  zhī tǐ OC: kje rʰiiʔ MC: tɕiɛ thei 2 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPnonreferentiallimbs
        枝  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • nlimb (loan for 肢)
        四體  sì tǐ OC: plids rʰiiʔ MC: si thei 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPthe four limbs (legs and arms, the head being omitted in this case)
        手足  shǒu zú OC: hmljuʔ tsoɡ MC: ɕɨu tsi̯ok 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPpluralarms and legs (hands and feet???)
        四枝  sì zhī MC: sijH tsye OC: plids kjeLZ 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • NP= si4zhi1 四肢: the four limbsLZ
        四肢  sì zhī MC: sijH tsye OC: plids kjeCH 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPthe four limbs of the bodyCH
        末  mò MC: mat OC: maadCH 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • npluralextremities> limbs 四末CH

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