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简化字 簡化字 jiǎn huà zì simplified Chinese character
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simplified form of 諮 (Note: In practice, 咨 is usually used in simplified Chinese rather than 谘, even though 咨 is not officially designated as the simplified form of 諮.)
简体中文 簡體中文 jiǎn tǐ zhōng wén simplified character Chinese, simplified Chinese
简体字 簡體字 jiǎn tǐ zì simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fan2 ti3 zi4] syn
简写 簡寫 jiǎn xiě to write characters in simplified form / the simplified form of a character / to abbreviate (a word or expression) / to write in simple language syn
字头 字頭 zì tóu single-character headword (in a dictionary) / first character of a Chinese word / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable
第二次漢字簡化方案 dì èr cì hàn zì jiǎn huà fāng àn Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简[er4 jian3]
第二次汉字简化方案 第二次漢字簡化方案 dì èr cì hàn zì jiǎn huà fāng àn Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简[er4 jian3]
简化等距线 簡化等距線 jiǎn huà děng jù xiàn simplified equidistant line / simplified line of equidistance
略字 lüè zì abbreviated character / simplified character
转注 轉注 zhuǎn zhù transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
转注字 轉注字 zhuǎn zhù zì transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
指事字 zhǐ shì zì ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down / also known as self-explanatory character
指事 zhǐ shì ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down / also known as self-explanatory character
或体 或體 huò tǐ variant Chinese character / alternative form of a Chinese character
新字体 新字體 xīn zì tǐ shinjitai, simplified Japanese character used since 1946
cān second-round simplified character for 餐[can1]
简体 簡體 jiǎn tǐ simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3]
繁体 繁體 fán tǐ traditional form of Chinese, as opposed to simplified form 簡體|简体[jian3 ti3] syn
繁简 繁簡 fán jiǎn complicated and simple / traditional and simplified form of Chinese characters
厂字旁 chǎng zì páng name of "cliff" 厂 radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)
xìn variant of 信[xin4] (originally meant as part of the second round of simplified Chinese characters)
简中 簡中 jiǎn zhōng Simplified Chinese (abbr. for 簡體中文|简体中文[jian3ti3 Zhong1wen2])
方格 fāng gé checked pattern / square box character (in Chinese text) indicating an illegible character
假借 jiǎ jiè to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan syn
同音字 tóng yīn zì Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
假借字 jiǎ jiè zì loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan
古字 gǔ zì ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character syn
训读 訓讀 xùn dú a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
田格本 tián gé běn exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
会意 會意 huì yì combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书[liu4 shu1] of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound / to comprehend without being told explicitly / to cotton on / knowing (smile, glance etc) syn
象形 xiàng xíng pictogram / one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
象形字 xiàng xíng zì pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
会意字 會意字 huì yì zì combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound
通用汉字标准交换码 通用漢字標準交換碼 tōng yòng hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard / abbr. to 通用碼|通用码[Tong1 yong4 ma3]
通用码 通用碼 tōng yòng mǎ Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard (abbr. for 通用漢字標準交換碼|通用汉字标准交换码[Tong1 yong4 Han4 zi4 Biao1 zhun3 Jiao1 huan4 ma3])
郑码 鄭碼 zhèng mǎ Zheng coding / original Chinese character coding based on component shapes, created by Zheng Yili 鄭易里|郑易里[Zheng4 Yi4 li3], underlying most stroke-based Chinese input methods / also called common coding 字根通用碼|字根通用码[zi4 gen1 tong1 yong4 ma3]
zhōng nonstandard simplified variant of 鍾|钟[zhong1]
wild beast / wild horse / lion / trad. form used erroneously for 貌 / simplified form used erroneously for 狻
tuō nonstandard simplified variant of 託|托[tuo1]
韓国 hán guó South Korea / Korea / Japanese variant of 韓國|韩国 (mixes traditional and simplified characters)
guī nonstandard simplified variant of 槼|规[gui1]
钜惠 鉅惠 jù huì big discount (The nonstandard simplified form 钜 is commonly used for this word in advertising instead of 巨[ju4].)
从简 從簡 cóng jiǎn to adopt a simplified approach / to keep things simple syn
区位 區位 qū wèi geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used to specify a character in a CJK character set)
生字 shēng zì new character (in textbook) / character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied
正字 zhèng zì to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling) syn
孙悟空 孫悟空 sūn wù kōng Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4] / Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠[Qi1 long2 zhu1]
八字方针 八字方針 bā zì fāng zhēn a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan / (esp.) the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by Li Fuchun 李富春[Li3 Fu4chun1] in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高|调整、巩固、充实、提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve"
声旁字 聲旁字 shēng páng zì character serving as sound value of another character / phonetic
通假 tōng jiǎ phonetic loan character / using one character interchangeably for phonetically related characters
通假字 tōng jiǎ zì phonetic loan character / using one character interchangeably for phonetically related characters
音读 音讀 yīn dú reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
破音字 pò yīn zì character with two or more readings / character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw)
líng character used in Taiwan as a substitute for a real name (like "X" in English) / variant of 〇[ling2] / character used in Taiwan as a substitute for a real name (like "X" in English) / variant of 〇[ling2]
国语 國語 guó yǔ Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC syn
华侨 華僑 huá qiáo overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
华裔 華裔 huá yì ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry syn
kuí one-legged mountain demon of Chinese mythology / Chinese mythical figure who invented music and dancing / Chinese rain god / surname Kui
峇峇娘惹 bā bā niáng rě Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)
二毛子 èr máo zi lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat
人物 rén wù person / personage / figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting syn
语音 語音 yǔ yīn speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message syn
汉字 漢字 hàn zì Chinese character(s) syn
司马 司馬 sī mǎ Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima
繁体中文 繁體中文 fán tǐ zhōng wén traditional character Chinese
字典 zì diǎn Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL:本[ben3]
音符 yīn fú (music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
字形 zì xíng form of a Chinese character / variant of 字型[zi4 xing2]
笔画 筆畫 bǐ huà strokes of a Chinese character syn
读音 讀音 dú yīn pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
单字 單字 dān zì single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) syn
错字 錯字 cuò zì incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text)
繁体字 繁體字 fán tǐ zì traditional Chinese character
声母 聲母 shēng mǔ the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1])
部首 bù shǒu radical of a Chinese character
音韵 音韻 yīn yùn music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character / phoneme
字根 zì gēn component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root / etymon
读法 讀法 dú fǎ pronunciation / reading (of a Chinese character)
笔顺 筆順 bǐ shùn stroke order (when writing Chinese character)
偏旁 piān páng component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part) syn
小篆 xiǎo zhuàn the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty syn
点画 點畫 diǎn huà strokes of a Chinese character
笔画数 筆畫數 bǐ huà shù stroke count (number of brushstrokes of a Chinese character)
形声 形聲 xíng shēng ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character
huà to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character syn
异体字 異體字 yì tǐ zì variant Chinese character
白读 白讀 bái dú colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
反切 fǎn qiè traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
huà to draw / to paint / picture / painting (CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1]) / to draw (a line) (variant of 劃|划[hua4]) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃|划[hua4]) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃|划[hua4]) syn
páng one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc) syn
本字 běn zì original form of a Chinese character
笔划检字表 筆劃檢字表 bǐ huà jiǎn zì biǎo lookup table for Chinese character based on radical and stroke count
今音 jīn yīn modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
广韵 廣韻 guǎng yùn Guangyun, Chinese rime dictionary 韻書|韵书[yun4 shu1] from 11th century, containing 26,194 single-character entries
合体字 合體字 hé tǐ zì a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意|会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲|形声
兔斯基 tù sī jī Tuzki, a Chinese cartoon rabbit character used in emoticons and stickers, created in 2006
yǐn component in Chinese character 殷[yin1]
中华字海 中華字海 zhōng huá zì hǎi Zhonghua Zihai, the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionary with 85,568 entries, compiled in 1994
五笔字形 五筆字形 wǔ bǐ zì xíng Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes (variant of 五筆字型|五笔字型[wu3 bi3 zi4 xing2])
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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