The Chinese Character Structure of Ancient Chinese Characters in Chinese Character Forest

The structure of Chinese characters in ancient Chinese characters is pictographic.

Hieroglyphics, which evolved from hieroglyphics, are the most primitive method of word-making, with reduced pictographs and enhanced symbolism. Because some physical things and abstract things cannot be drawn, it has great limitations. Egyptian hieroglyphics, Hittite hieroglyphics, Sumerian characters, ancient Indian characters and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China are all independently produced from the simplest pictures and patterns in primitive society.

The ancient Egyptians invented hieroglyphics:

This writing is slow and difficult to understand. As time went on, even the Egyptians themselves finally forgot how to interpret it. Later, with the excavation of the Rosetta stone, we can still recognize this kind of writing today. The Chinese characters used in China are one of the few hieroglyphs still in use in the world.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions:

According to the research of linguists, a large number of "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" unearthed in China in modern times were widely and maturely used in Shang Dynasty. During this period, China's pottery production, bedroom architecture, mural art, silk weaving production, etc. Invented and used by various advanced cultures. There are about 27% pictophonetic characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which shows that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a fairly mature writing system.

According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty, Chinese characters at that time had developed into a writing system that could completely record Chinese. In the discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins, the number of words has reached about 4000. There are a lot of signifiers, pictographs, knowing characters, and many pictographs. These characters are very different in appearance from the characters we use today. But from the point of word formation, they are basically the same.