What are the advantages and disadvantages of pictophonetic characters?

Hieroglyphs: moon, sheep, son, bird, garrison, field and hand.

Understanding words: Zhong, Dan, Cong, Shu, Xiu, Sen, Jing, Miao, Pin, Wu, Bi, Zao, Chen, Guo, Bi, Bao, Qi, Fu, Wu, Yan, Li, Cai, Kun, Gong and Chu.

Finger characters: up, down and blade.

Pictophonetic characters: Yuan, Piao, Ma, Bian, Ma, Wen, Broken, Piao, Chen, Wen, Cai, Pian, Promote, Freeze, Correct, Ride, Miao, Attack, Neck, Cut, Release, Nautilus, Female, Reason, Reason.

Advantages and disadvantages of pictophonetic characters

1, advantages

"Pictophonetic characters" is the most effective way to create Chinese characters, because its structural mode of expressing sounds and meanings meets the needs of recording Chinese. More than 90% of modern regular script Chinese characters are pictophonetic characters, and new characters can be created (such as some newly created simplified characters and scientific characters).

2. Deficiencies

Generally speaking, the phonetic side can not accurately represent pronunciation, and the phonetic side of pictophonetic characters represents the pronunciation of words, but most of them are approximate and not completely accurate. Some syllables are exactly the same as words in pronunciation, rhyme and tone, such as "health and loyalty"; Some initials and finals are the same, but the tones are different, such as "win, sing and release", and some initials are the same but the finals are different, such as "wave, light and coal". Some vowels are the same but different, such as "grass, red, river"; Some syllables can't express sound at all, such as "sea, bear, glow" and so on. And because of the repeated changes of Chinese fonts, the syllables of some words have become unrecognizable.