FINGER    手指指

Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a finger and a toe is zhǐ 指 and there are no current competing words. 2. Mǔ 拇 refers both to the thumb and to the big toe. 3. Bò 擘 is frustratingly rare but appears to refer unambiguously to the thumb.
Modern Chinese Criteria
手指 手指頭 指 無名指 小指 拇指 大拇指 指頭 春蔥 玉尖 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
    Part of
    • NAILSHARD SURFACE ON FINGERS AND TOES.
    See also
    Hypernym
      Other Hypernyms
      • N/A　 (anc: 3/0, child: 85)
      • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
      • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
      • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
      • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
      • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
    • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.34

    • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 253

    • The Finger ( TRUMBLE 2010) p.

      • Words (5 items)

      指  zhǐ OC: kjiʔ MC: tɕi 13 Attributions

      The standard word for a finger and a toe is zhǐ 指 and there are no current competing words.

        Syntactic words
      • nfinger
      • nadVpluralwith one's fingersCH
      拇  mǔ OC: mɯʔ MC: mu 2 Attributions

      Mǔ 拇 refers both to the thumb and to the big toe.

        Syntactic words
      • nthumb or big toe
      食指  shí zhǐ OC: ɢljɯɡ kjiʔ MC: ʑɨk tɕi 1 Attribution
        Syntactic words
      • NP"eating finger"> index finger
      五指  wǔ zhǐ MC: nguX tsyijX OC: ŋaaʔ kjiʔ 1 Attribution
        Syntactic words
      • NPall five fingersLZ
      擘  bò OC: preeɡ MC: pɣɛk 0 Attributions

      Bò 擘 is rare but appears to refer unambiguously to the thumb.

        Syntactic words
      • ntraditionally said to be in MENG: thumb 巨擘, but I have not found other good pre-Buddhist examples.