Sichuanese character (; Sichuanese Pinyin: ''Si⁴cuan¹ Fang¹yan²zi⁴''; ) refers to those

Chinese characters Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji ...

used only in written

Sichuanese Sichuanese, Szechuanese or Szechwanese may refer to something of, from, or related to the Chinese province and region of Sichuan (Szechwan/Szechuan) (historically and culturally including Chongqing), especially: * Sichuanese people, a subgroup of th ...

. Sichuanese characters are often created as ideogrammatic compound characters (会意字) or phono-semantic compound characters (形声字). 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:

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