육서

육서

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 六書.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key)[juks͈ʌ̹]
• Phonetic Hangul[육써]

Revised Romanization? yukseo Revised Romanization (translit.)? yugseo McCune–Reischauer? yuksŏ Yale Romanization? yukqse

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”)