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:

身(body) + 小(small) = 𨈓

small body → thin

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:

Determinative	Rebus	Compound
扌 hand	老 nao^3	㧯 nao^3 "to lift with hand"

Examples

Sichuanese character	Sichuanese Pinyin	meaning	Standard Chinese character with similar meaning
𢭃	dou^4	to compose	拼
搣	mie^3	to tear	掰
𤆺	kong^3	a local way to cook	none
𠵫	ngang^3	loud	响
𨃅[2]	bai^1	lame	瘸
𨈓	nang^1	thin	瘦
𤆵	pa^1	soft	软
朒	ga^3	meat	肉
奓	za^1	open	张
㮟	ka^1 or qia^1	to jam into	塞
𣲩	pa^2	a local quantifier	滩
㞎	ba^3	excrement	屎
𧿨[2]	ban^3	to struggle	挣扎
𧽤	biao^1	to run fast	none
𢱟	can^3	to slap	扇
𢲵	cao^4	to stir	搅
𡘧	ka^2 or qia^2	to step across	跨
㩳	song^3	to push	推
	gu^1	to crouch	蹲
	din^1ga^1	small	小
㥑	ngou^4	to irritate, to become irritated, to become broken-hearted	气
餈	ci^2	a local dessert	none

References

1. 梁东汉 (1959). "第一章第四节：在方言基础上产生的方言文字". 《汉字的结构及其流变》. 上海教育出版社.
2. 赵振铎 (2001). "收字杂议". 《字典论》. 上海辞书出版社. ISBN 7-5326-0808-5.