BLADE  刀刃刃

SHARP SIDE OR TIP FOR PIERCING OR CUTTING in a CUTTING TOOL.
EDGE
Hypernym
  • SIDEPLACE to the LEFT OR RIGHT, AND NOT IN FRONT OR BEHIND.
    • PLACEPART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
      • PARTOBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general current word for the cutting edge of an instrument is rèn 刃.

2. Ruì 銳 refers to the sharp point of a weapon which normally does not have an edge.

3. Fēng 鋒 refers to the sharp point at the end of the edge of a weapon.

NB: máng 鋩 "sharp point of a weapon" is not current in pre-Buddhist Chinese.

Modern Chinese Criteria
刃

口

鋒

刀鋒

刀口

刀刃

鋒口

鋒刃

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. 12.352

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.353

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    EDGE

    acies refers to the extended edge of something that might cut.

    acumen refers to the sharp tip of something that might prick, stab or stick.

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1527

    銳，鋩

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • 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. 46.47

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. NO. 47

Words

刃  rèn OC: njins MC: ȵin 4 AttributionsWD

The general current word for the cutting edge of an instrument is rèn 刃.

    Word relations
  • Epithet: 白/NAKED Bái 白 in connection with the terms for body parts can also refer to the nakedness.

    Syntactic words
  • nblade of a dagger, axe, or sword, cutting edge
鋒  fēng OC: phoŋ MC: phi̯oŋ 4 AttributionsWD

Fēng 鋒 refers to the sharp point at the end of the edge of a weapon.

    Syntactic words
  • npoint of a dagger or sword, sharp point at the end of an edge.
  • nadVto V like a dagger, to V like a spikeVK
鍔  è OC: ŋɡlaaɡ MC: ŋɑk
咢  è OC: ŋɡlaaɡ MC: ŋɑk 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nblade of a sword or knife
刀刃  dāo rèn OC: k-laaw njins MC: tɑu ȵin 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPedge of a knife
鋩  máng OC: maŋ MC: mi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD

NB: máng 鋩 "sharp point of a weapon" is not current in pre-Buddhist Chinese.

    Syntactic words
  • nsharp point of any weapon
銳  ruì OC: lods MC: jiɛi 1 AttributionWD

Ruì 銳 refers to the sharp point of a weapon which normally does not have an edge.

    Syntactic words
  • nsharp point
鋒鋩  fēng máng OC: phoŋ maŋ MC: phi̯oŋ mi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPedge (of a weapon), sharpt point, blade
廉  lián OC: ɡ-rem MC: liɛm 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nangle; edge
  • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:

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