指事

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Noun

指事 (hiragana しじ, romaji shiji)

  1. (Chinese character classification) ideogram, particularly in the sense of 六書 ideogram. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters such as above and below that indicate an abstract idea with a non-arbitrary logogram.

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.

Noun

指事 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhǐshì)

  1. (Chinese character classification) ideogram, particularly in the sense of 六書 ideogram. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters such as above and below that indicate an abstract idea with a non-arbitrary logogram.

See also

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