Compound ideograms - Kaiiji

…It is said that the founding emperor, Li Yuan-ho, had Nori Ren-ei create it. There are 6,133 characters in total, and like Chinese characters, it is made up of about 300 kinds of crowns, radicals, and other elements (44 combinations), and there are many phono-semantic characters and compound characters. For example, the compound characters such as "top" in the crown of a tree and "sink" in the water radical for "heavy" and "cut in two" in the gold crown are very interesting because they reflect the unique thinking of the Western Xia people. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "compound ideographs" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…建国の英主，李元昊（りげんこう）が野利仁栄（やりじんえい）に作らせたと伝えられる。全体で6133字あり，漢字と似て約300種の冠（かんむり），偏，旁（つくり）などの要素を組み合わせて(44通り)構成され，形声字，会意字が多い。たとえば，木冠に〈先端〉は梢，水偏に〈重い〉は沈む，金冠に〈二つに切る〉は鋸（のこぎり）などの会意字の作り方には，西夏人の独特の思考が反映されていてたいへんおもしろい。…

※「会意字」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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