Chinese characters are the main characters that have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only characters that have been passed down to this day in various ancient writing systems. The nature of words is determined by the nature of symbols used in words. Words are symbols of language, and as symbols of language, words are different from the symbols used by words themselves. In China, Chinese characters are the main official languages of several generations.
Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are widely used in Chinese cultural circles. They were invented and improved by China people in ancient times, and the exact history can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC. It was not until the Han Dynasty that the seal script of the Qin Dynasty was named "Chinese Characters". ?
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the research on the nature of Chinese characters has gradually attracted people's attention. Many linguists at home and abroad have discussed this issue from many aspects, and many works on the nature of Chinese characters will mention this issue. The nature of Chinese characters has become a basic theoretical problem in the study of Chinese characters.
"Ideographic writing" is the earliest and most explicit theory to point out the nature of Chinese characters. Saussure put forward: "A word is only represented by symbols, and this symbol has nothing to do with the sounds that make up the word. This symbol is related to the whole word, so it is indirectly related to the idea it represents. A typical example of this system is Chinese characters.