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Chinese character classification

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the traditional etymological classification of hanzi into 6 categories: pictographs (象形), ideograms (指事), semantic–semantic compounds (會意), phono-semantic compounds (形聲), phonetic loans (假借), “derivative cognates” (轉注)

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rebus character
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native label
六书
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Chinese characters
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