gilimû (English spelling) gilimu

Japanese: gilimû(英語表記)gilimu
gilimû (English spelling) gilimu


[Composition and Usage]
Cuneiform characters are written from left to right, and text is usually written within pre-drawn lines. When analyzing the structure of archaic cuneiform characters, the original form of cuneiform characters, its method of construction is similar to that of the six scripts of Chinese characters, namely pictographic, ideographic, dactylic, phono-semantic, loaned, and transliterated. However, there are also known unique Sumerian character-making methods, such as adding multiple lines to existing characters (gunû), tilting existing characters (tenû), and crossing two existing characters of the same name (gilimû) (Figure 3). In pictographs, there is a strong tendency to express the characteristic parts of an object in an abstract way.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "gilimû" are listed below.

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[構成と用法]
 楔形文字は原則として左から右へ書き,あらかじめ引いておいた罫線の中に文を収めるのが普通である。楔形文字の原形である古拙文字を構成の面で分析すると,その方法は漢字の六書(りくしよ),すなわち象形,会意,指事,形声,仮借,転注と類似の構成法が認められるが,シュメール独自の造字法として,既存の文字に複数の線を加える〈グヌーgunû〉,既存の文字を傾斜させる〈テヌーtenû〉,既存の同文字を二つ交差させる〈ギリムーgilimû〉と呼ばれる方法などが知られている(図3)。象形においては,対象の特徴的部分を抽象的に表現する傾向が強い。…

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