Sichuanese characters

Sichuanese character (Chinese: 四川方言字; Sichuanese Pinyin: Si4cuan1 Fang1yan2zi4; pinyin: Sìchuān Fāngyánzì) refers to those Chinese characters used only in written Sichuanese. Sichuanese characters are often created as ideogrammatic compound characters (会意字) or phono-semantic compound characters (形声字).[1] For example, in Sichuanese 𨈓 (Sichuanese Pinyin: nang1) means thin, and it is created in ideogrammatic compounds as shown in the table below:

身(body) + 小(small) = 𨈓

small body → thin

Furthermore, 㧯 (Sichuanese Pinyin: nao3), which means to lift in Sichuanese, is created as a phono-semantic compound character as shown in the table below:

Determinative | Rebus | Compound

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hand  | 老
nao3 | 㧯
nao3 "to lift with hand"

## Examples

Sichuanese character | Sichuanese Pinyin | meaning | Standard Chinese character with similar meaning

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𢭃 | dou4 | to compose | 拼
搣 | mie3 | to tear | 掰
𤆺 | kong3 | a local way to cook | none
𠵫 | ngang3 | loud | 响
𨃅[2] | bai1 | lame | 瘸
𨈓 | nang1 | thin | 瘦
𤆵 | pa1 | soft | 软
朒 | ga3 | meat | 肉
奓 | za1 | open | 张
㮟 | ka1 or qia1 | to jam into | 塞
𣲩 | pa2 | a local quantifier | 滩
㞎 | ba3 | excrement | 屎
𧿨[2] | ban3 | to struggle | 挣扎
𧽤 | biao1 | to run fast | none
𢱟 | can3 | to slap | 扇
𢲵 | cao4 | to stir | 搅
𡘧 | ka2 or qia2 | to step across | 跨
㩳 | song3 | to push | 推
| gu1 | to crouch | 蹲
| din1ga1 | small | 小
㥑 | ngou4 | to irritate, to become irritated, to become broken-hearted | 气
餈 | ci2 | a local dessert | none

## References

1. ↑ 梁东汉 (1959). "第一章第四节：在方言基础上产生的方言文字". 《汉字的结构及其流变》. 上海教育出版社.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 赵振铎 (2001). "收字杂议". 《字典论》. 上海辞书出版社. ISBN 7-5326-0808-5.

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