육서

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 六書.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [juks͈ʌ̹]
• Phonetic hangul: [육써]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	yukseo
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	yugseo
McCune–Reischauer?	yuksŏ
Yale Romanization?	yuk.se

Noun

육서 • (yukseo) (hanja 六書)

1. The six types of Han characters:
   1. 지사 (指事, jisa, “ideogram”)
   2. 상형 (象形, sanghyeong, “pictogram”)
   3. 형성 (形聲, hyeongseong, “phono-semantic”)
   4. 회의 (會意, hoe'ui, “compound ideograph”)
   5. 전주 (轉注, jeonju, “derivative cognate”)
   6. 가차 (假借, gacha, “phonetic loan”)