The word "what" in ancient Chinese has always been regarded as an adverb. Ma Jianzhong thinks it is an pictographic character, which is used in front of verbs or static words, "indicating the depth where you go." Yang Shuda thinks it is an adverb of attitude.

Lv Shuxiang thinks it is an adverb with a high degree of expression. In short, the works on classical Chinese grammar so far are generally regarded as adverbs of degree because "what" is often used as an adverbial in sentences.

In pre-Qin ancient books, "Shi" is indeed an adverbial, but it is also a predicate. Ma Jianzhong has seen this phenomenon. He is analyzing "Why Zheng Bo? What land of Zheng Bo is deliberate and killing people. " (Gu) said: "The word' pole' is synonymous with the word' pole'.

More importantly, Chinese common words (a kind of words), pronounced as shèn or shèn, are understandable words, which were first seen in the Western Zhou Dynasty inscriptions.

The original meaning is special happiness, which is reflected in the later differentiation word "Zhan" of "what"; From original meaning to excessive, excessive; And extended to serious, serious, too, deep, very, extremely, beyond; From the meaning of "extraordinary" and "extreme" to the meaning of "real" and "realistic".

What? I can read. At the beginning of the article, from sweetness to finish. The meaning of "bi" is not clear. In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the word "what" had increased, and the word "bi" gradually changed into the word "seven" with a short figure of "eight" in the middle. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the word "horse" was mixed, so Shuowen was misunderstood as "following the horse".

The first half of the word "hen" was originally written as "gan", but it has been kept as "mouth" since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the "mouth" in the shape of "Bi" and the "eight" in the shape of "Bi" have been interchanged in Chu documents of the Warring States.

In the late Warring States period, the top of the right upper part was extended horizontally and left and right to write in the shape of "Gan". Although it was not accepted by Xiao Zhuan, it was inherited by, so the word "He" is similar to the word "Qi" on the L, so the official script of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty often wrote the word "Gan" here as a variant of the word "Qi".

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lishu began to extend the left and right vertical strokes of the shape of "Gan" downward, touching the top and horizontal of the shape of "Pi", and the word "Gan" was completely invisible, thus opening the regular script form of the word "He" in later generations.