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signific Linguistics.|sɪgˈnɪfɪk|
[f. significant n.]
= radical n. 1 c. Also attrib. Cf. phonetic n.
1923B. Karlgren Analytic Dict. Chinese & Sino-Japanese 1, I never use the term ‘radical’, as it wrongly conveys the idea of ‘radix, racine, root’ which is quite a different notion in general philology from that of signific: the meaning indicating part in the Chinese character. Ibid. 4 Nine tenths of all Chinese characters consist of one ‘signific’ and one ‘phonetic’. 1948R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. ii. 38 The signific element in each case [sc. a character] denotes, or, more commonly, merely suggests, an order of ideas to which the meaning of the whole belongs. 1951Shau Wing Chan Elementary Chinese p. xvi, The last category is known as Chuaňchù... It includes characters having identical significs and somewhat similar meanings but different phonetics. 1964Language XL. 104 What sometimes appeared..to be a graphic element totally unrelated to the phonemic shape of the morph in question and hence by default a semantic ‘key’ or ‘signific’ was often in reality a phonetic element in the script. 1973Sci. Amer. Feb. 54/2 When the ‘horse’ phonetic is combined with the signific for ‘jade’, we have mă, which means ‘agate’. |