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漢字 Chinese Characters
Principles of formation
Chinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A small number of characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or simple ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. Some other words were expressed by compound ideograms, but the vast majority were written using the rebus principle, in which a character for a similarly sounding word was either simply borrowed or (more commonly) extended with a disambiguating semantic marker to form a phono-semantic compound character.
•象形字 xiàngxíngzì ("image-form characters“)
•指事字 zhǐshìzì ("point-thing characters")
•會意字 huìyìzì ("assemble-thought characters")
•形聲字 xíngshēngzì ("form–sound characters")
•假借字 jiǎjièzì ("false-borrow characters")
•轉注字 zhuǎnzhùzì ("move-focus characters")
Samples :
•Radicals / Symbols
•Phonetic parts
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