chỉ sự

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 指事.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi˧˩ sɨ˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɪj˧˨ ʂɨ˨˩ʔ] ~ [t͡ɕɪj˧˨ sɨ˨˩ʔ]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [cɪj˨˩˦ ʂɨ˨˩˨] ~ [cɪj˨˩˦ sɨ˨˩˨]

Noun

chỉ sự

1. (Chinese character classification) One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters such as 上 (thượng, “above”) and 下 (hạ, “below”) that indicate an abstract idea with a non-arbitrary logogram.

See also

• lục thư (六書, “The six types of Han characters”)
  • chỉ sự (指事, “ideogram”)
  • tượng hình (象形, “pictogram”)
  • hình thanh (形聲, “phono-semantic compound”)
  • hội ý (會意, “compound ideograph”)
  • chuyển chú (轉注, “derivative cognate”)
  • giả tá (假借, “phonetic loan”)