03 Simple ideograms
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This document discusses independent Chinese characters called "indicative characters" or "simple ideograms" that express abstract meanings through simple symbols. These characters either add indicators to pictographs to create new meanings or directly illustrate abstract concepts. The document provides examples of characters that use indicators like short strings or lines to represent concepts such as root, treetop, up, down, middle, big, small, and others. It notes that indicative characters are fewer in number than pictograms.
03 Simple ideograms
- 1. Lesson 03 Independent characters (2) - Simple ideograms
- 2. zhǐ shì zì • Simple ideograms (指 事 字 - indication ), which are also called “Indicative characters”, express abstract meanings by simple symbols. • Characters of this sort either add indicators to pictographs to make new meanings, or illustrate abstract concepts directly. • The indicative characters are much fewer in number than the pictograms.
- 3. • In the examples below, low numerals are represented by the appropriate number of strokes:
- 4. běn mò In "本"(root) and "末"(treetop),a short string underneath and a short string upside are respectively used to indicate the positions of a root and treetop.
- 5. běn 本 root
- 6. mò 末 top of tree - apex
- 7. shàng xià In the characters "上 "and "下", an iconic indication above and below a line is used to express the directions “up” and “down”. shàng 上 Up xià 下 Down
- 11. dà 大 big
- 12. xiǎo 小 small
- 14. tiān 天 sky,day
- 15. bái 白 white
- 16. cháng 长 long
- 17. lì 力 power
- 18. xuè 血 blood
- 21. Takk for i dag!