転注

Japanese

Kanji in this term
転	注
てん Grade: 3	ちゅう Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
轉注 (kyūjitai)

Noun

転(てん)注(ちゅう) • (tenchū) 

1. (linguistics) figurative extension of meaning
2. (Chinese character classification) derivative cognate

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) (kaii, “compound ideograph”)
  • 転(てん)注(ちゅう) (tenchū, “derivative cognate”)
  • 仮(か)借(しゃ) (kasha, “phonetic loan”)

References

• “転注”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026