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) (kaī, “compound ideograph”)
- 転(てん)注(ちゅう) (tenchū, “derivative cognate”)
- 仮(か)借(しゃ) (kasha, “phonetic loan”)