xíng​xùn

etymological glossing

  • created sense approved 形训/形訓 · xíng​xùn · etymological glossing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    形训 / 形訓

    xíng​xùn

    etymological glossing

    the practice in traditional philology of explaining the meaning of a character by analyzing its graphic structure

    形 (literal) → 形 · xíng · shape 训 (literal) → 训/訓 · xùn · to explain

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

    created sense