Chinese Art
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The Liu Shu categories are: (1)pictographs (hsiang hsing); (2)ideographs (chih shih); (3)compound ideographs (hui i); (4)compounds with both phonetic and meaning elements (hsing sheng); (5)characters which are assigned a new written form to better reflect a changed pronunciation (chuan chu); and (6)characters used to represent a homophone or near-homophone that are unrelated in meaning to the new word they represent (chia chieh). |
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