Category:Han characters by formation type
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Traditional “6 principles” of character formation: 六書／六书 (liùshū, “six writings”) Japanese: rikusho.
Of these, 4 pertain to character formation, while the remaining 2 (假借 (jiǎjiè, “borrowing; making use of”) and 轉注 (zhuǎn zhù, “reciprocal meaning”)) refer to semantic change (change in meaning) – respectively, to the use of an existing character to write words with similar pronunciation, or to cognates (divergent words with a common root) sharing similar descendant characters.
Currently only the 5 formation types exist as categories.
The template Template:Han compound is used in relation to this on Wiktionary.
References
[edit]- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字/说文解字) is a standard reference (early 2nd century CE), and is valuable, but inaccurate at points
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
H
- Han ideogrammic compounds (0 c, 921 e)
- Han ideograms (0 c, 69 e)
- Han jiajie (0 c, 6 e)
- Han phono-semantic compounds (0 c, 5488 e)
- Han pictograms (0 c, 439 e)