육서

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 六書.

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?yukseo
Revised Romanization (translit.)?yugseo
McCune–Reischauer?yuksŏ
Yale Romanization?yuk.se

Noun

육서 • (yukseo) (hanja 六書)

  1. The six types of Han characters:
    1. 지사 (指事, jisa, “ideogram”)
    2. 상형 (象形, sanghyeong, “pictogram”)
    3. 형성 (形聲, hyeongseong, “phono-semantic”)
    4. 회의 (會意, hoe'ui, “compound ideograph”)
    5. 전주 (轉注, jeonju, “derivative cognate”)
    6. 가차 (假借, gacha, “phonetic loan”)
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