Sichuanese characters

Sichuanese character (Chinese: 四川方言字; Sichuanese Pinyin: Si⁴cuan¹ Fang¹yan²zi⁴; pinyin: Sìchuān Fāngyánzì) refers to those Chinese characters used only in written Sichuanese. Sichuanese characters are often created as ideogrammatic compound characters (会意字) or phono-semantic compound characters (形声字).^[1]

For example, in Sichuanese 𨈓 (Sichuanese Pinyin: nang¹) means thin, and it is created in ideogrammatic compounds as shown in the table below:

Furthermore, 㧯 (Sichuanese Pinyin: nao³), which means to lift in Sichuanese, is created as a phono-semantic compound character as shown in the table below:

Examples

Sichuanese character	Sichuanese Pinyin	meaning	Standard Chinese character with similar meaning
𢭃	dou4	to compose	拼
搣	mie3	to tear	掰
𤆺	kong3	a local way to cook	none
𠵫	ngang3	loud	响
𨃅[2]	bai1	lame	瘸
𨈓	nang1	thin	瘦
𤆵	pa1	soft	软
朒	ga3	meat	肉
奓	za1	open	张
㮟	ka1 or qia1	to jam into	塞
𣲩	pa2	a local quantifier	滩
㞎	ba3	excrement	屎
𧿨[2]	ban3	to struggle	挣扎
𧽤	biao1	to run fast	none
𢱟	can3	to slap	扇
𢲵	cao4	to stir	搅
𡘧	ka2 or qia2	to step across	跨
㩳	song3	to push	推
	gu1	to crouch	蹲
	din1ga1	small	小
㥑	ngou4	to irritate, to become irritated, to become broken-hearted	气
餈	ci2	a local dessert	none

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