Kategorija:Han karakteri po tipu formacije

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Tradicionalno “6 principles” formiranja karaktera: 六書／六书 (liùshū, “six writings”); simplified: 六书; Japanese: rikusho.

Of these, 4 pertain to character formation, while the remaining 2 (假借 (jiǎjiè, “borrowing; making use of”) and 轉注 (zhuǎn zhù, “reciprocal meaning”)) refer to semantic change (change in meaning) – respectively, to the use of an existing character to write words with similar pronunciation, or to cognates (divergent words with a common root) sharing similar descendant characters.

Trenutno postoje samo 5 vrsta formacije kao kategorije.

• Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字/说文解字) is a standard reference (early 2nd century CE), and is valuable, but inaccurate at points