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Chinese character classification

the traditional etymological classification of hanzi into 6 categories: pictographs (象形), ideograms (指事), semantic–semantic compounds (會意), phono-semantic compounds (形聲), phonetic loans (假借), “derivative cognates” (轉注)

Pronunciation
/ʧʌɪˈniːz ˈkarəktə ˌklasɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
/ˌʧaɪˈniz ˈkɛrəktər ˌklæsəfəˈkeɪʃən/