転注

Japanese

Kanji in this term
転	注
てん Grade: 3	ちゅう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
轉注 (kyūjitai)

Noun

転(てん)注(ちゅう) • (tenchū)

(linguistics) figurative extension of meaning
(Chinese character classification) derivative cognate

See also

六書(りくしょ) (rikusho): The six types of Han characters
- 指(し)事(じ) (shiji): ideogram
- 象(しょう)形(けい) (shōkei): pictogram
- 形(けい)声(せい) (keisei): phono-semantic compound
- 会(かい)意(い) (kaii): compound ideograph
- 転(てん)注(ちゅう) (tenchū): derivative cognate
- 仮(か)借(しゃ) (kasha): phonetic loan

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