HUNCHBACK  駝背傴

A HUMAN who HAS the DEFECT of an INTENSELY CURVED BACK.
Hypernym
  • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
See also
  • ILLNESSTYPICALLY TEMPORARY DEFECT of the BODY OR MIND of HUMANS OR of the BODY of ANIMALS.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The general word for a hunchback is yǔ 傴.

    2. Lóu 僂 is a very dramatic rare word to use for an extremely deformed back.

    3. Jū 痀 is a medical term describing someone as hunchbacked.

    4. Wāng 尪 refers specifically to someone whose deformation consists in having a protruding chest and being bent backwards.

    5. Lōng 癃 refers more generally to deformity. See ILLNESS

    黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
    HUANG JINGUI 2006

    HUMAN BODY 24.

    痀（佝），各種骨骼彎曲的通稱，即今佝僂病。

    耇，特指老年人脊背彎曲。

    傴，背脊骨往後往下的彎曲。

    僂，頸彎或頸胸彎，彎曲度小於傴。

    尪，胸背段脊柱向前向外突出，即今雞胸。

    俯，可表低頭、彎頸、曲身、伏身等動作，但非疾病或癥狀名。

    癃，泛指廢疾，不指腰曲而背隆高。

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    駝背

    弓背

    駝子

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

    Attributions by syntactic funtion

    • n : 5
    • vadN : 3
    • v[adN] : 3
    • VPi : 2
    • NP{N1=N2} : 1
    • NP : 1
    • vi : 1

    Attributions by text

    • 莊子 : 4
    • 荀子 : 2
    • 春秋左傳 : 2
    • 呂氏春秋 : 2
    • 禮記 : 2
    • 韓非子 : 2
    • 景德傳燈錄 : 1
    • 百喻經 : 1

    Words

    傴  yǔ OC: qoʔ MC: ʔi̯o 5 AttributionsWD

    The general word for a hunchback is yǔ 傴.

      Syntactic words
    • v[adN]ZZ, LSCQ: hunchback
    • vadNbent, crippled
    尪  wāng OC: qʷaaŋ MC: ʔɑŋ 4 AttributionsWD

    Wāng 尪 refers specifically to someone whose deformation consists in having a protruding chest and being bent backwards.

      Syntactic words
    • nLIJI: hunchback who is bent backwards
    • vicrippled; lame
    僂  lóu OC: ɡ-roo MC: lu
    僂  lǚ OC: ɡ-roʔ MC: li̯o 2 AttributionsWD

    Lóu 僂 is a very dramatic rare word to use for an extremely deformed back.

      Word relations
    • Inconsist: 伸 / 伸信/STRETCH OUT The current general word for stretching things so as to make them reach out longer is shēn 伸 (ant. suō 縮 "pull in").

      Syntactic words
    • nprotrusion on the back
    • viZZ: be slightly hunched (from the waist up)
    痀僂  jū lóu OC: ko ɡ-roo MC: ki̯o lu 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPindefinitehunchbackCH
    • VPibe hunchbacked
    痀  jū OC: ko MC: ki̯o 1 AttributionWD

    Jū 痀is a medical term describing someone as hunchbacked.

      Syntactic words
    • vadNZZ: hunched
    傴僂  yǔ lǚ OC: qoʔ ɡ-roʔ MC: ʔi̯o li̯o 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NP{N1=N2}hunchback
    傴身  yǔ shēn MC: 'juX syin OC: qoʔ qhjinLZ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe hunchbackedLZ
    癃  lóng OC: ɡ-ruum MC: luŋ 0 AttributionsWD

    Lóng 癃refers more generally deformity. See ILLNESS

      Syntactic words
    脊僂  jǐ lǚ OC: tseɡ ɡ-roʔ MC: tsiɛk li̯o 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPabstativehunchback disease

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