# 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)

**Wikidata**: [Q1188254](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1188254)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/chinese-character-classification


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013