CAGE 鳥籠
BOX to REAR BIRDS OR ANIMALS IN, TYPICALLY MADE OF TIMBER, BAMBOO, OR METAL.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The xiá 柙 is a strong restrictive cage which may be very large so as to contain even tigers.
2. Lóng 籠 is prototypically a bamboo bird cage, and the word also has figurative uses.
3. Fán 樊 is a rare word referring to a bird's cage of some kind which we can no longer reconstruct.
2. Lóng 籠 is prototypically a bamboo bird cage, and the word also has figurative uses.
3. Fán 樊 is a rare word referring to a bird's cage of some kind which we can no longer reconstruct.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鳥籠
籠
櫳
柙
檻
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
籠
櫳
柙
檻
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Words
籠 lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 6 Attributions
Lóng 籠 is prototypically a bamboo bird cage, and the word also has figurative uses.
- Syntactic words
- ncage; bird's cage
- nadVin a cage LIAOZHAI: 籠養之 "rear in a cage"
- vtoNfigurativeput in a cage> keep trapped
柙 xiá OC: ɡraab MC: ɦɣap 4 Attributions
The xiá 柙 is a strong restrictive cage which may be very large so as to contain even tigers.
- Syntactic words
- nstrong cage for wild animals (e.g. for tigers, also rhinoceros)
- vtoNput in a cage
樊 fán OC: ban MC: bi̯ɐn 3 Attributions
Fán 樊 is a rare word referring to a bird's cage of some kind which we can no longer reconstruct.
- Syntactic words
- naviary; pen
- NPfigurativethe "cage" of this world; the confines of this world of Heaven-and-EarthCH
笯 nú OC: naa MC: nuo̝ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- ncage
櫳 lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nP, late: cage
篝 gōu OC: koo MC: ku 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nbamboo cage
Existing SW for
Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: