A research on Pictographs of《Shuowen Jiezi》

Abstract

In the history of Chinese characters pictograph is one of the earliest methods of making characters . Pictographs are the basic structural types Chinese characters . The construction of Chinese characters must start with pictographs . Pictograms are one of the easiest word-building methods, but they are also a very important word-building method . Tang Lan ( 2001 ) pointed out that the importance of pictographs in " Chinese philology " is " all the characters are not based on Pictographs , they cannot be written . " Therefore , the study of Chinese characters should be based on the study of pictographic characters . The main content of this paper is to summarize and classify 244 pictographs according to the Xinhua Dictionary . This paper builds a database , which is based on the original meaning of pictographs, classifies pictographs, and analyzes their structures . In addition , the analysis pictographic characters reflect the various modes of thinking of the ancestors.