会意

See also: 會意

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 会意 – see 會意 (“compound ideographs, one of the six classifications of Chinese characters; etc.”). (This term is the simplified form of 會意).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
会	意
かい Grade: 2	い Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
會意 (kyūjitai)

Noun

会(かい)意(い) • (kaii) 

1. (Chinese character classification) compound indicatives

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”)