Liu Shu's theory has important enlightenment and help to literacy teaching. Liu Shu mentioned six ways to form Chinese characters, including pictograph, fingering, knowing, pictophonetic characters, transliteration and borrowing. It can stimulate students' interest in literacy teaching, promote students to remember the sound, form and meaning of Chinese characters, and inherit the traditional culture of China.

Expansion: six books

Six books were first found in History of Guan Bao in Li Zhoudi, and scholars in Han Dynasty divided them into six categories. Generally, Xu Shen's name and the order of Ban Gu are adopted. Later scholars named it pictograph, indication, cognition, pictophonetic characters, Zhuan Zhu and borrowing.

Liu Shu is a system summarized by later generations through the analysis of Chinese characters, and it is also the earliest systematic theory about the construction of Chinese characters. When there is a six-character system, when people create new words, it is based on this system.

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Liu Shu is a system for analyzing and summarizing Chinese characters in Han Dynasty. However, when the "Six Books" system came into being, people used this system as the basis when creating new words. It seems that "cat", "dragon" and "dragon" are pictophonetic characters, "concave", "convex" and "dragon" are pictographic characters.

The foreign language of this chemical element is named after Einstein. These new words, including Japanese characters, are also coined according to the Six Books. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze, hieroglyphics are the majority. This is because drawing things is the most direct way to create words.

However, with the development of characters, more and more things need to be carefully divided, such as "carp", "shad", "shad" and "loach", all of which are fish, and it is difficult to draw their characteristics and differences carefully by pictographic methods. Therefore, pictophonetic characters have become the most convenient method. As long as you use the word "fish" next to the shape, you can explain their genus, and then distinguish these words with similar pronunciation.

Also, because the efficiency of pictophonetic characters in creating new words is very high, and some originally intended words are gradually "read" into pictophonetic characters, only about 15% of the characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions era were pictophonetic characters, but in modern times, 50% of Chinese characters are pictophonetic characters.