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- letter
- symbol
- character
- word
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
Trad. 數字
- numeral
- digit
- number
- figure
- amount
- digital (electronics etc)
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- 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]
Trad. 字彙
- Zihui, Chinese character dictionary with 33,179 entries, released in 17th century
- abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府)
- code name
- (old) pronoun
- Zilin, Chinese character dictionary with 12,824 entries from ca. 400 AD
Trad. 字樣
- model or template character
- written slogan or phrase
- mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)
- (of a clock or watch) to run; to register time
- (of a utility meter, odometer etc) to register; to advance; to click over
- to create Chinese characters
- cf Six Methods of forming Chinese characters 六書|六书[liu4 shu1]
Trad. 字號
- characters and numbers (as used in a code)
- alphanumeric code
- serial number
Trad. 字頭
- 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
- new character (in textbook)
- character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied
- character
- script
- writing
- written language
- writing style
- phraseology
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle)
- courtesy name
- to correct an erroneously written character
- regular script (calligraphy)
- standard form (of a character or spelling)
Trad. 題字
- to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc)
- an inscription
Trad. 國字
- Chinese character (Hanzi)
- the native script used to write a nation's language
Trad. 吉字節
- gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
- shape resembling the character 八 or 8
- V-shape
- splayed
- figure of eight
Trad. 統漢字
- Unihan
- China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs
- abbr. for 中日韓統一表意文字|中日韩统一表意文字[Zhong1 Ri4 Han2 tong3 yi1 biao3 yi4 wen2 zi4]
Trad. 一字馬
- the splits (in gymnastics, dance or martial arts)
Trad. 虎字頭
- name of "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141)
- see also 虍[hu1]
- name of "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149)
- see also 訁|讠[yan2]
- Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
Trad. 轉注字
- 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
Trad. 畫十字
- to make the sign of the cross
- to make a cross (on paper)
- Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌[Fan2 chang1], Anhui
- (orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case)
- consistent characters (e.g. 搖|摇[yao2], 遙|遥[yao2] and 謠|谣[yao2], which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)
- 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
Trad. 檢字法
- indexing system for Chinese characters in a dictionary
Trad. 錯別字
- incorrectly written or mispronounced characters
Trad. 反義字
- character with opposite meaning
- antonym
- opposite characters
Trad. 左字頭
- "top of 左 character" component in Chinese characters
Trad. 聲旁字
- character serving as sound value of another character
- phonetic
Trad. 正體字
- standard form of a Chinese character
- (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
- table of components used in wubi input method 五筆輸入法|五笔输入法[wu3 bi3 shu1 ru4 fa3]
- Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
- pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
- Chinese character derived from a picture
- sometimes called hieroglyph
Trad. 字母詞
- word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线[γ she4 xian4])
Trad. 舊字體
- kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
Trad. 兆字節
- megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
- character set (e.g. ASCII 美國資訊交換標準碼|美国资讯交换标准码 or Unicode 統一碼|统一码)
- name of the radical 冂[jiong1] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13)