Abstract
There are only two entries under the Chinese character “ ” in the 5th edition of Modern Chinese Dictionary, namely xífù and xífur. They are annotated as two words with completely different meanings, each with two meanings. By searching the Ancient Chinese Corpus and examining the use cases one by one, it is proved that xífur appeared later than xífù, but they are identical in lexical semantics. Xífù and xífur are actually a word, which should be classified as an entry. There are only three meanings in the word: son’s wife, wife and young married woman in general.
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Wang, J. (2020). Corpus-Based Textual Research on the Meanings of the Chinese Word “Xífu(r)”. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_68
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