COMB    梳子

TOOL USED FOR CAUSING HAIR to BECOME STRAIGHT.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard ancient word for a comb is jié 櫛 in Han times. Combs can be made of wood, bone, bamboo, horn or ivory. 2. Shū 梳 is a rare word in antiquity which first became current in Han times, according to SHUOWEN, the term should refer to the comb with teeth far apart. 3. Tì 揥 refers to the comb-pin, which in early times are usually made of ivory: 4. Bì ｂｉ (FIND CHARACTER IN UNICODE) is a term for the comb with teeth close together; in SHUOWEN called bǐ 比.
Modern Chinese Criteria
梳頭 梳理 梳 攏 櫛 梳篦 (lit) refers to thick and fine combs. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • HAIRSTYLEMETHOD of FIXING HAIR and HEADGEAR.
Hypernym
  • TOOL　ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD. (anc: 5/0, child: 53)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 6.91

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 100

    • Words (5 items)

    櫛  zhì OC: tsriɡ MC: ʈʂɪt 14 Attributions

    The standard ancient word for a comb is zhì 櫛 in Han times. Combs can be made of wood, bone, bamboo, horn or ivory.

      Syntactic words
    • nSHI: comb
    • viactto comb
    梳子  shū zǐ OC: sqra sklɯʔ MC: ʂi̯ɤ tsɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcomb
    揥  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions

    Tì 揥 refers to the comb-pin, which in early times are usually made of ivory:

    • [100 page synonym dictionary which I have in Oslo and shall identify.CH] ( XIANG 1997) p. 638 - 639

      Syntactic words
    • ncomb-pin
    梳  shū OC: sqra MC: ʂi̯ɤ 0 Attributions

    Shū 梳 is a rare word in antiquity which first became current in Han times, according to SHUOWEN, the term should refer to the comb with teeth far apart.

      Syntactic words
    • nHan, Cui Shi: a comb with teeth far apart
    • vt[oN]to comb hair
    • vtoNto comb
    篦  bì OC: pii MC: pei 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Han, Tang: comb with teeth close together [in the SHUOWEN called bǐ 比: see ZHGD 1993: 227] [JM]