SWEAT    汗

BODY JUICE ISSUED FROM the BODY WHEN it is HOT, OR WHEN IT USES MUCH STRENGTH.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for sweat is hàn 汗. 2. Cí 泚 is a rare word for sweat, probably a dialect word, which happens to be used by Mencius.
Modern Chinese Criteria
汗 津 汗液 汗珠子 汗珠兒 汗水 出汗 流汗 淌汗 揮汗 汗涔涔 汗津津 汗溱溱 遍體生津 汗流浹背 揮汗成雨 揮汗如雨 汗出如漿 滿頭大汗 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • BODY JUICES　IMPORTANT LIQUID in the BODY. (anc: 6/0, child: 6)
  • LIQUID　SUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW. (anc: 5/0, child: 9)
  • SUBSTANCE　THING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS. (anc: 4/0, child: 28)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.55

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 284

    • Words (2 items)

    汗  hàn OC: ɡaans MC: ɦɑn 11 Attributions

    The current word for sweat is hàn 汗.

      Syntactic words
    • nadNsweaty
    • nmsweat
    • viactexude sweat
    • vtoNsweat (blood etc) 汗血
    泚  cǐ OC: tsheʔ MC: tshiɛ 1 Attribution

    Cí 泚 is a rare word for sweat, probably a dialect word, which happens to be used by Mencius.

      Syntactic words
    • nmsweating
    • viprocessto sweat