LIMB    肢體肢

BODY PART OTHER than the TORSO.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for a limb is zhī 肢. 2. Tǐ 體 refers (often collectively) to the limbs of the body, and it must be noted that the head counts as one tǐ 體 in the xíng 形 "body", but there is also a closely related usage where the word refers quite generally to the parts of the body as in bǎi tǐ 百體.
Modern Chinese Criteria
肢 肢體 四體 四肢 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • ARM　The LIMB BETWEEN SHOULDER AND the HAND of ANIMALS.  (anc: 4/0, child: 0)
  • HEAD　LIMB CONTAINING EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH. (anc: 4/0, child: 1)
  • LEG　LIMB ABOVE and INCLUDING the FOOT (anc: 4/0, child: 0)
Part of
  • JOINTBODY PART IN which BONES MEET AND CAN CHANGE POSITION IN-RELATION-TO MUTUAL:each other.
Hypernym
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    LIMB

    membrum refers to a limb of the body itself.

    artus refers properly only to the joint of a limb.

  • 古代文化詞異集類辨考 Gudai wenhua ci yi ji lei bian kao ( HUANG JINGUI 1995) p. 479

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 126

  • 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.324

    • Words (9 items)

    肢  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ
    枝  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ
    支  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ 8 Attributions

    The current word for a limb is zhī 肢.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 體/LIMB Tǐ 體 refers (often collectively) to the limbs of the body, and it must be noted that the head counts as one tǐ 體 in the xíng 形 "body", but there is also a closely related usage where the word refers quite generally to the parts of the body as in bǎi tǐ 百體.

      Syntactic words
    • n=肢　limb； 四肢 "the four limbs (excluding head)"
    • vt+prep+Nderivedgrow an extra limb onCH
    體  tǐ OC: rʰiiʔ MC: thei 7 Attributions

    Tǐ 體 refers (often collectively) to the limbs of the body, and it must be noted that the head counts as one tǐ 體 in the xíng 形 "body", but there is also a closely related usage where the word refers quite generally to the parts of the body as in bǎi tǐ 百體.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 肢 / 枝 / 支/LIMB The current word for a limb is zhī 肢.
    • Oppos: 心/MIND The general word for the mental sphere of man is xīn 心 "HEART> mind" (ant. xíng 形 "physical shape, body", tǐ 體 "limbs, body").

      Syntactic words
    • nplurallimbs including the head; also: body parts generally 四體，五體，百體
    支體  zhī tǐ OC: kje rʰiiʔ MC: tɕiɛ thei 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentiallimbs
    四肢  sì zhī MC: sijH tsye OC: plids kje 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPthe four limbs of the bodyCH
    四體  sì tǐ OC: plids rʰiiʔ MC: si thei 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPthe four limbs (legs and arms, the head being omitted in this case)
    末  mò MC: mat OC: maad 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npluralextremities> limbs 四末CH
    枝  zhī OC: kje MC: tɕiɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nlimb (loan for 肢)
    四枝  sì zhī MC: sijH tsye OC: plids kje 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NP= si4zhi1 四肢: the four limbsLZ
    手足  shǒu zú OC: hmljuʔ tsoɡ MC: ɕɨu tsi̯ok 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPpluralarms and legs (hands and feet???)