Category:Han characters by formation type

Traditional “6 principles” of character formation: Japanese: rikusho.

Of these, 4 pertain to character formation, while the remaining 2 ( and ) refer to semantic change (change in meaning) – respectively, to the use of an existing character to write words with similar pronunciation, or to cognates (divergent words with a common root) sharing similar descendant characters.

Currently only the 5 formation types exist as categories.

The template Template:Han compound is used in relation to this on Wiktionary.