ARMPIT  腋窩

The HOLLOW under the ARM where THE ARM is JOINed IN-RELATION-TO the TRUNK of an ANIMAL. 
Hypernym
Old Chinese Criteria
[BASIC/MARGINAL]

[COMMON/RARE]

1. The specific word for the armpit is yè 腋.

[BASIC]; [[COMMON]]

2. Xié 脅 "ribs" can be used to refer to the area of the armpits, and the word is also used for "carrying under one's armpit".

[MARGINAL]; [[RARE]]

Modern Chinese Criteria


胳肢窩 gāzhiwò

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

    Words

      yè OC: k-laɡ MC: jiɛk 2 Attributions

    The specific word for the armpit is yè 腋.

      Syntactic words
    • nZHUANG: armpit; also those of a fox (HSWZ)
      xié OC: qhlob MC: hi̯ɐp 0 Attributions

    Xié 脅 "ribs" can be used to refer to the area of the armpits, and the word is also used for "carrying under one's armpit".

      Syntactic words
    • narmpit and ribs on the side of the body

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: