TAIL  尾巴

BODY PART RESEMBLING a ROPE which HANGS FROM ABOVE the ANUS of an ANIMAL.
BRUSHSCUTDOCKTAIL FEATHERSHINDQUARTERS
Hypernym
See also
  • BUTTOCKSLOWEST BACK PART of the TRUNK of HUMANS.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The general word for a tail of any animal, including birds, is wěi 尾.

    2. Máo 旄 can refer specifically to the tail of a bovine.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    尾

    尾巴

    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. 4.18

    Attributions by syntactic funtion

    • n : 15
    • npost-N : 1
    • NP : 1
    • nab : 1

    Attributions by text

    • 莊子 : 3
    • 禮記 : 2
    • 臨濟錄 : 2
    • 荀子 : 1
    • 類說 : 1
    • 春秋左傳 : 1
    • 呂氏春秋 : 1
    • 論衡 : 1
    • 賢愚經 : 1
    • 百喻經 : 1
    • 韓非子 : 1
    • 淮南子 : 1
    • 韓詩外傳 : 1
    • 郭店楚簡 語叢一 : 1

    Words

    尾  wěi OC: mɯlʔ MC: mɨi 15 AttributionsWD

    The general word for a tail of any animal, including birds, is wěi 尾.

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 牛/BOVINE The current general word for bovines of any kind is niú 牛.
    • Oppos: 首/HEAD The standard word for the head is shǒu 首.

      Syntactic words
    • ntail (of beasts or birds)
    • nabfigurativetail end> end, final state; what things ends up as
    • npost-Nof garments: tailendCH
    旄  máo OC: moow MC: mɑu 2 AttributionsWD

    Máo 旄 can refer specifically to the tail of a bovine.

      Syntactic words
    • ntail of a bovine, specifically of a yak
    馬尾  mǎ wěi OC: mraaʔ mɯlʔ MC: mɣɛ mɨi 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPhorse's tail

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