tượng hình

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 象形.

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Noun

tượng hình

(Chinese character classification) pictogram, one of the six classifications of Chinese characters 六書 (lục thư).

See also

lục thư (六書, “The six types of Han characters”)
- chỉ sự (指事, “ideogram”)
- tượng hình (象形, “pictogram”)
- hình thanh (形聲, “phono-semantic compound”)
- hội ý (會意, “compound ideograph”)
- chuyển chú (轉注, “derivative cognate”)
- giả tá (假借, “phonetic loan”)

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