Five Characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Word-making

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's word formation has five characteristics, and the related knowledge is as follows:

1, pictographic: Oracle Bone Inscriptions's glyphs mostly come from natural things or phenomena. For example, the word "mountain" imitates the shape of a mountain peak, while the word "person" imitates the standing form of a person. This hieroglyph makes Oracle Bone Inscriptions intuitive and vivid.

2. Representation: Some glyphs in Oracle Bone Inscriptions represent the whole by representing a certain part of things. For example, the word "wood" represents a tree by representing its trunk.

3. Understanding: Some glyphs in Oracle bone inscriptions express a new meaning through the combination of two or more pictographs or indicative glyphs. For example, the word "Ming" is a combination of "day" and "month", indicating brightness.

4. Phonology: In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, some glyphs express meaning through one part and syllables through another. For example, the word "Lin" consists of two characters, the word "wood" above represents meaning and the word "wood" below represents syllables.

5. Borrowing: Some glyphs in Oracle Bone Inscriptions borrow existing glyphs to express new meanings. For example, the word "horse" borrowed the pictographic word "deer" to refer to the horse.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's related knowledge

1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is very rich in historical materials. First of all, they are one of the earliest systematic characters in China, recording a large number of historical events, sacrificial activities, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and so on. It provides valuable information for studying the history and culture of China. Secondly, Oracle Bone Inscriptions also showed the development and evolution of early Chinese characters, which is of great significance to the study of the origin and development of Chinese characters.

2. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's writing art also showed the cultural and artistic level of Shang Dynasty for later generations. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a long history of discovery and research. The earliest Oracle Bone Inscriptions was found in the ruins of Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan, so Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also called "Yin Ruins Characters".

3. Since the Qing Dynasty, many scholars have studied and interpreted Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and gradually revealed the connotation and value of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. With the development of science and technology, modern archaeology and linguistics provide more scientific and accurate methods for the study of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.