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Journal Article
Beyond Logography: The Phenomenon of zhuānzì...in the Chinese Writing System
2023
Overview
Zhuānzi ... are often defined as graphs representing a \"special meaning\" of a word, manifest in the choice (i.e., addition or alteration) of a semantic component. This article approaches the zhuānzi phenomenon in the broader context of the logographic nature of the Chinese writing system. It first identifies and discusses several thematic categories of zhuānzi, including both historical examples from unearthed and transmitted corpora and instances from the Chinese script as used in the linguistic environment of modem Mandarin. The article then seeks to compare and describe different kinds of information conveyed by different zhuānzi and suggests a terminological shift toward defining zhuānzi as \"representing a subset of the word's denotation,\" a phrasing more suited to the complex reality of the phenomenon in question.
