[笔 / 筆, bǐ, ㄅㄧˇ]pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money, deals#1555[Add to Longdo]
[成语 / 成語, chéng yǔ, ㄔㄥˊ ㄩˇ]saw: set expression of written Chinese, invariably made up of 4 characters (or two couplets of 4 characters), often alluding to a story or historical quotation, sometimes cliched, trite or old-fashioned (specialized Chinese saw dictionaries 成語辭典|成语辞典 list#18036[Add to Longdo]
[假借, jiǎ jiè, ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ]loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan#30074[Add to Longdo]
[会意 / 會意, huì yì, ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄧˋ]combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements; also known as joint ideogram or associative compounds#30415[Add to Longdo]
[象形, xiàng xíng, ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ]pictogram; one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters; Chinese character derived from a picture; sometimes called hieroglyph#50113[Add to Longdo]
[形声字 / 形聲字, xíng shēng zì, ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄗˋ]radical plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character#73199[Add to Longdo]
[转注 / 轉註, zhuǎn zhù, ㄓㄨㄢˇ ㄓㄨˋ]transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character with meanings influenced by other words; sometimes called mutually explanatory character#80606[Add to Longdo]
[六书 / 六書, liù shū, ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄕㄨ]Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲|形声 (radical plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借#94942[Add to Longdo]
[反切, fǎn qiè, ㄈㄢˇ ㄑㄧㄝˋ]traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone#96240[Add to Longdo]
[之乎者也, zhī hū zhě yě, ㄓ ㄏㄨ ㄓㄜˇ ㄧㄝˇ]four common characters of classical Chinese (成语 saw); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk; double Dutch; all Greek to me#97005[Add to Longdo]
[形声, xíng shēng, ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ]radical plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character#108972[Add to Longdo]
[龙生九子 / 龍生九子, lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ, ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄗˇ]lit. the dragon has nine sons (成语 saw); fig. all kinds of characters; good and bad intermingled; It takes all sorts to make a world.#120126[Add to Longdo]
[王码 / 王碼, Wáng mǎ, ㄨㄤˊ ㄇㄚˇ]Wang code, same as 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民|王永民 in 1983#137366[Add to Longdo]
[五笔 / 五筆, wǔ bǐ, ㄨˇ ㄅㄧˇ]abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民|王永民 in 1983[Add to Longdo]
[五笔字型 / 五筆字型, wǔ bǐ zì xíng, ㄨˇ ㄅㄧˇ ㄗˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ]five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民|王永民 in 1983[Add to Longdo]
[五笔字形 / 五筆字形, wǔ bǐ zì xíng, ㄨˇ ㄅㄧˇ ㄗˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ]Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes; variant of 五筆字型|五笔字型[Add to Longdo]
[假借字, jiǎ jiè zì, ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄗˋ]loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan[Add to Longdo]
[大麦地 / 大麥地, dà mài dì, ㄉㄚˋ ㄇㄞˋ ㄉㄧˋ]place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Chinese characters[Add to Longdo]
[指事, zhǐ shì, ㄓˇ ㄕˋ]ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down; also known as self-explanatory character[Add to Longdo]
[指事字, zhǐ shì zì, ㄓˇ ㄕˋ ㄗˋ]ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down; also known as self-explanatory character[Add to Longdo]
[会意字 / 會意字, huì yì zì, ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄧˋ ㄗˋ]combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements; also known as joint ideogram or associative compounds[Add to Longdo]
[じょうほう, jouhou](n) (1) (See 秘密情報) news; gossip; (military) intelligence; (2) (See 情報インフラ) information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.); (P)#102[Add to Longdo]
[く, ku](n, n-suf) (1) section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph; (2) { ling } phrase; (3) verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); (4) haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; (5) maxim; saying; idiom; expression; (P)#7280[Add to Longdo]
[おおもじ(P);だいもんじ, oomoji (P); daimonji](n) (1) (See 小文字) upper case letters; large characters; capital letter; (2) (だいもんじ only) the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; (3) (だいもんじ only) huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year; (P)#12928[Add to Longdo]
[ayakashi](n) (1) ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; (2) something strange or suspicious; (3) idiot; fool; (4) noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters[Add to Longdo]
[くのじてん, kunojiten](n) (See 踊り字) iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters)[Add to Longdo]
[あしで, ashide](n) (1) painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period); (2) characters written in a way inspired from that style[Add to Longdo]
[かなぞうし, kanazoushi](n) story book written in kana (or in kana mixed with Chinese characters) in the early Edo period (primarily for the enlightenment and entertainment of women and children)[Add to Longdo]