会意

See also: 會意

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 会意 – see 會意 (“compound ideographs, one of the six classifications of Chinese characters; etc.”). (This term, 会意, is the simplified form of 會意.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
会	意
かい Grade: 2	い Grade: 3
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
會意 (kyūjitai)

Noun

会(かい)意(い) • (kaii) 

1. (Chinese character classification) compound indicatives

See also

• 六書(りくしょ) (rikusho): The six types of Han characters
  • 指(し)事(じ) (shiji): ideogram
  • 象(しょう)形(けい) (shōkei): pictogram
  • 形(けい)声(せい) (keisei): phono-semantic compound
  • 会(かい)意(い) (kaī): compound ideograph
  • 転(てん)注(ちゅう) (tenchū): derivative cognate
  • 仮(か)借(しゃ) (kasha): phonetic loan