WRITTEN CHARACTER  文字

WRITTEN IMAGE:symbol TYPICALLY USED to RECORD SPEAK:speech.
ALPHABETICAL CHARACTERCHARACTERSIGNSYMBOLMARKFIGURERUNE
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  • SYMBOLARTEFACT USED FOR REFERRING to something INTENSELY DIFFERENT from that ARTEFACT.
    • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
See also
  • NAMESPEAK so as to REFER to something OR WORD USED for REFERRING to something.
    • DOCUMENTARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR CONTAINING WRITING.
      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 ／

      • 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

      Attributions by syntactic funtion

      • NP : 24
      • n : 10

      Attributions by text

      • 論衡 : 7
      • 祖堂集 : 6
      • 臨濟錄 : 5
      • 史記 : 3
      • 春秋左傳 : 3
      • 六祖壇經 : 3
      • 呂氏春秋 : 2
      • 朱子語類 : 2
      • 漢書 : 1
      • 禮記 : 1
      • 荀子 : 1

      Words

      文字  wén zì OC: mɯn sɡlɯs MC: mi̯un dzɨ 23 AttributionsWD
        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 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD

      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: ŋanCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • ncountedwritten characterCH
      史書  shǐ shū MC: sriX syo OC: srɯʔ qhljaCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPclerical administrative script of the imperial bureaucracyCH
      名  míng OC: meŋ MC: miɛŋ 0 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD
        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 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nCorresponds to the character form known as dàzhuàn 大篆, the character form used in Qin before the xiǎozhuàn 小篆 reform.
      草  cǎo OC: tshuuʔ MC: tshɑu 0 AttributionsWD
        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).
      古文  gǔ wén OC: kaaʔ mɯn MC: kuo̝ mi̯un 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPold-style Chinese character; old style characters; old style writing
      鳥跡  niǎo jì, jī OC: ntɯɯwʔ sklaɡ MC: teu tsiɛk 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NP{N1adN2}TRACES OF BIRDS> characters LIU XIE 鏤心鳥跡之中

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