육서

Korean

Etymology

    Sino-Korean word from 六書.

    Pronunciation

    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”)
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