chỉ sự
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Sino-Vietnamese word from 指事.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕi˧˩ sɨ˧˨ʔ]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɪj˧˨ ʂɨ˨˩ʔ] ~ [t͡ɕɪj˧˨ sɨ˨˩ʔ]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [cɪj˨˩˦ ʂɨ˨˩˨] ~ [cɪj˨˩˦ sɨ˨˩˨]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Noun
[edit]- (Chinese character classification) One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters such as 上 (thượng, “above”) and 下 (hạ, “below”) that indicate an abstract idea with a non-arbitrary logogram.
See also
[edit]- lục thư (六書, “The six types of Han characters”)
- chỉ sự (指事, “ideogram”)
- tượng hình (象形, “pictogram”)
- hình thanh (形聲, “phono-semantic compound”)
- hội ý (會意, “compound ideograph”)
- chuyển chú (轉注, “derivative cognate”)
- giả tá (假借, “phonetic loan”)