Sichuanese characters (; Sichuanese Pinyin: Si4cuan1 fang1yan2zi4;) are 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 (Sichuanese Pinyin: nang1) means "thin", and it is created in ideogrammatic compounds as shown in the table below:
| 身(body) + 小(small) = | |
| 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:
| Sichuanese character | Sichuanese Pinyin | meaning | Standard Chinese character with similar meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| dou4 | to compose | 拼 | |
| 搣 | mie3 | to tear | 掰 |
| kong3 | a local way to cook | none | |
| ngang3 | loud | 响 | |
| [2] | bai1 | lame | 瘸 |
| nang1 | thin | 瘦 | |
| pa1 | soft | 软 | |
| 朒 | ga3 | meat | 肉 |
| 奓 | za1 | open | 张 |
| 㮟 | ka1 or qia1 | to jam into | 塞 |
| pa2 | a local quantifier | 滩 | |
| 㞎 | ba3 | excrement | 屎 |
| ban3 | to struggle | 挣扎 | |
| biao1 | to run fast | none | |
| can3 | to slap | 扇 | |
| cao4 | to stir | 搅 | |
| 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 | 慪 / 怄 |
| 餈 | ci2 | a local dessert | none |