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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Tzŭ is composed of 子 tzŭ child and 宀 mien an obsolete character meaning shelter, the former having here the double function of radical or indicator of sense, and of phonetic or indicator of sound. The word originally meant to suckle,—a child beneath a roof; later on, to betroth a girl. It came to be used in the sense of written character under the First Emperor according to some, and according to others about a century later in the famous history by 司馬遷 Ssŭ-ma Chi'en. Previous to that date the characters 名 ming and 文 wên had been used. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
字
zì
letter/symbol/character/word/CL:個|个[ge4]/courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
Phrases ending with the given character
一yī
致zhì
字zì
consistent phonogram(s)
不不bù
识識shí
字字zì
illiterate
例lì
外wài
字zì
exception(s)
俗俗sú
体體tǐ
字字zì
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
假jiǎ
借jiè
字zì
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
克kè
漏lòu
字zì
cloze (loanword)
划劃huà
十十shí
字字zì
variant of 畫十字|画十字[hua4 shi2 zi4]
反反fǎn
义義yì
字字zì
character with opposite meaning/antonym/opposite characters
合合hé
体體tǐ
字字zì
a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意|会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲|形声
同同tóng
义義yì
字字zì
synonym
同tóng
音yīn
字zì
homophonic characters
多duō
音yīn
字zì
character with two or more readings
常cháng
用yòng
字zì
everyday words
平píng
滑huá
字zì
sans serif (typography)
形形xíng
声聲shēng
字字zì
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
批pī
八bā
字zì
to have one's fortune read/system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle)
指zhǐ
事shì
字zì
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
探探tàn
测測cè
字字zì
probe (character)
斜斜xié
体體tǐ
字字zì
italic letter/slanting typeface
方方fāng
块塊kuài
字字zì
Chinese characters
会會huì
意意yì
字字zì
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
正正zhèng
体體tǐ
字字zì
standard form of a Chinese character/(Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
死sǐ
文wén
字zì
dead language/indecipherable script
独獨dú
体體tǐ
字字zì
single-component character
生shēng
冷lěng
字zì
obscure or archaic character
画畫huà
十十shí
字字zì
to make the sign of the cross/to make a cross (on paper)
异異yì
体體tǐ
字字zì
variant Chinese character
破pò
音yīn
字zì
character with two or more readings/character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw)
破破pò
体體tǐ
字字zi
non-standard or corrupted form of a Chinese character
简簡jiǎn
化化huà
字字zì
simplified Chinese character
简簡jiǎn
体體tǐ
字字zì
simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fan2 ti3 zi4]
粗粗cū
体體tǐ
字字zì
bold letter
红紅hóng
十十shí
字字zì
Red Cross
纯純chún
文文wén
字字zì
text only (webpage)
统統tǒng
汉漢hàn
字字zì
Unihan/China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs/abbr. for 中日韓統一表意文字|中日韩统一表意文字[Zhong1 Ri4 Han2 tong3 yi1 biao3 yi4 wen2 zi4]
缩縮suō
略略lǜe
字字zì
abbreviated character
繁繁fán
体體tǐ
字字zì
traditional Chinese character
罗羅luó
马馬mǎ
字字zì
the Latin alphabet
声聲shēng
旁旁páng
字字zì
character serving as sound value of another character/phonetic
象xiàng
形xíng
字zì
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)/Chinese character derived from a picture/sometimes called hieroglyph
走zǒu
背bèi
字zì
to have bad luck
转轉zhuǎn
注注zhù
字字zì
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
通tōng
假jiǎ
字zì
phonetic loan character/using one character interchangeably for phonetically related characters
错錯cuò
别別bié
字字zì
incorrectly written or mispronounced characters
关關guān
键鍵jiàn
字字zì
keyword
非非fēi
数數shù
字字zì
non-numeric
头頭tóu
文文wén
字字zì
initial/first letter of word (in Latin script)
头頭tóu
号號hào
字字zì
largest typeface/biggest letters
颜顏yán
文文wén
字字zì
Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
黑黑hēi
体體tǐ
字字zì
bold letter