転注

Japanese

Kanji in this term
転	注
てん Grade: 3	ちゅう Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
轉注 (kyūjitai)

Noun

転(てん)注(ちゅう) • (tenchū) 

1. (linguistics) figurative extension of meaning
2. (Chinese character classification) derivative cognate

See also

• 六書(りくしょ) (rikusho): The six types of Han characters
  • 指(し)事(じ) (shiji): ideogram
  • 象(しょう)形(けい) (shōkei): pictogram
  • 形(けい)声(せい) (keisei): phono-semantic compound
  • 会(かい)意(い) (kaī): compound ideograph
  • 転(てん)注(ちゅう) (tenchū): derivative cognate
  • 仮(か)借(しゃ) (kasha): phonetic loan