HATCH    孵卵伏／孚

Give BIRTH by CAUSING EGGS to REMAIN WARM ENDURINGLY.
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Modern Chinese Criteria
抱 孵 抱窩 孵化 孵卵 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • BIRTH　BEGINNING of LIFE. (anc: 14/0, child: 5)
  • BEGIN　ENDURINGLY STOP NOT to ACT OR to BE RESEMBLING:as in the PAST. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
  • STOP　ACT so as NOT to CONTINUE NOW:present ACTION. (anc: 12/0, child: 10)

Words (4 items)

乳  rǔ OC: njoʔ MC: ȵi̯o 3 Attributions

Rǔ 乳 is another term meaning to hatch.

    Syntactic words
  • viacthatch
伏  fù OC: bɯɡs MC: bɨu 3 Attributions

Since the birds are sitting on the eggs in order to hatch, fù 伏 can be also used as a term meaning to hatch.

    Syntactic words
  • vt[oN]hatch; sit on eggs
  • vtoNhatch
嫗  yù OC: qos MC: ʔi̯o 0 Attributions

Yǔ 嫗 means to warm up one another, hence it is also used as a term meaning to hatch.

    Syntactic words
  • viactsit on eggs; warm with one's body
孚  fū OC: pho MC: phi̯o 0 Attributions

Fú 孚 means to hatch.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNhatch