WRITTEN CHARACTER    文字

WRITTEN IMAGE:symbol TYPICALLY USED to RECORD SPEAK:speech.
ALPHABETICAL CHARACTERCHARACTERSIGNSYMBOLMARKFIGURERUNE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current standard word for a Chinese character is wén 文, and in certain late contexts only the word refers to non-compound characters. 2. Another word for a character, particularly a compound character, is zì 字. 3. A generic term for characters emphasising the orthographic style to which they belong is shū 書. 4. Míng 名 refers to characters (character types, not tokens) insofar as they are construed as designating something. 5. Mìng 命 is a term that refers to the act of assigning a character to a certain meaning. See NAME.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 EDUCATION 3. 文，獨體字。 字，合體字。 書，通稱。 名，相當今語言學上的 “ 詞 ” ，包括詞義、概念。
Modern Chinese Criteria
字 文字 文 親筆 漢字 中國字 方塊字 單字 字 異體字 重文 俗體字 俗字 破體字 refers to an irregular form of a character. 古文字 古文 古字 簡體字 簡化字 手頭字 (obs) referred traditionally to simplified characters - which have a long history in China. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
See also
  • NAMESPEAK so as to REFER to something OR WORD USED for REFERRING to something.
  • DOCUMENTARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR CONTAINING WRITING.
Hypernym
  • SYMBOL　ARTEFACT USED FOR REFERRING to something INTENSELY DIFFERENT from that ARTEFACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 13)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    LETTER

    Litera refers to a letter as the indivisible part of writing.

    elementum refers more generally to the indivisible basic elements of language.

  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 64

  • Kleine Schriften Deutsche Ostasienstudien ( UNGER 2009) p. 31-52

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 139

    • Words (13 items)

    文字  wén zì OC: mɯn sɡlɯs MC: mi̯un dzɨ 23 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPdefinitethe (definite, identified) character
    • NPnonreferentialcharacters; the Chinese characters in general (>the written word)
    • NPpluralscript; the Chinese characters; Chinese characters
    書  shū OC: qhlja MC: ɕi̯ɤ 4 Attributions

    A generic term for characters emphasising the orthographic style to which they belong is shū 書.

      Syntactic words
    • nwritten character in a text written in a specific style of orthography LIJI 書同文 is problematic and does not illustrate this meaning.
    文  wén OC: mɯn MC: mi̯un 3 Attributions

    The current standard word for a Chinese character is wén 文, and in certain late contexts only the word refers to non-compound characters.

      Syntactic words
    • nPATTERN> graph, graphic shape; written shape; (as opposed to 字 "written character standing for a word)
    字  zì OC: sɡlɯs MC: dzɨ 2 Attributions

    Another word for a character, particularly a compound character, is zì 字.

      Syntactic words
    • ncharacter (graph with a pronunciation as a Chinese word)
    言  yán MC: ngjon OC: ŋan 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ncountedwritten characterCH
    史書  shǐ shū MC: sriX syo OC: srɯʔ qhlja 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPclerical administrative script of the imperial bureaucracyCH
    草  cǎo OC: tshuuʔ MC: tshɑu 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadNdraft (or outline) character form, in opposition to kǎishū 楷書. Just as 楷, 草 did not originally refer to a specific character form, so each character form has its corresponding cǎo 草 character form (章草/小篆; 今草/楷書).
    鳥跡  niǎo jì, jī OC: ntɯɯwʔ sklaɡ MC: teu tsiɛk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP{N1adN2}TRACES OF BIRDS> characters LIU XIE 鏤心鳥跡之中
    古文  gǔ wén OC: kaaʔ mɯn MC: kuo̝ mi̯un 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPold-style Chinese character; old style characters; old style writing
    名  míng OC: meŋ MC: miɛŋ 0 Attributions

    Míng 名 refers to characters (character types, not tokens) insofar as they are construed as designating something.

      Syntactic words
    • nin early texts: written character
    命  mìng OC: mɢreŋs MC: mɣaŋ 0 Attributions

    Mìng 命 is a term that refers to the act of assigning a character to a certain meaning. See NAME

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNgive a name to, assign a character to describe something; See NAME
    楷  kǎi OC: khriidʔ MC: khɣɛi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nOrginally not a term for any specific charcter form, but (in post-Han times?) it became the designation of a character from being viewed in opposition to l�4shū 隸書.
    籀  zhòu OC: rliwɡs MC: ɖɨu 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nCorresponds to the character form known as dàzhuàn 大篆, the character form used in Qin before the xiǎozhuàn 小篆 reform.