hù​xùn

mutual glossing

  • created sense approved 互训/互訓 · hù​xùn · mutual glossing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    互训 / 互訓

    hù​xùn

    mutual glossing

    a method of philological exegesis where synonymous words are used to define each other; to provide such mutual definitions (often considered a circularity to be avoided in modern lexicography)

    互 (literal) → 互 · hù · mutually 训 (literal) → 训/訓 · xùn · to explain

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense