What do these six Chinese characters refer to?

The six books of Chinese characters refer to pictographs, signifiers, comprehensives, pictophonetics, transliteration and loanwords.

In fact, the first four methods can really make Chinese characters. Pictographic characters are a way to describe the shape of things, such as "day, month, sheep, car" and so on; Refers to a word-making method that uses symbolic symbols or implies symbols on pictographs to express meaning, such as "up, down, root and tail".

Understanding is a word-making method that two or more Chinese characters (or components) are used to synthesize a word, and the meanings of these Chinese characters are synthesized into new meanings, such as "Hugh, Ming, Cong and Sen". The method of using pictophonetic characters and homophonic characters to form new words is called pictophonetic method, such as "mu, he, Dao and Zhi".

History of Chinese character creation

According to legend, Cang Xie went into nature and camped out in the wild. Accompanied by the sun, moon, stars, animals, flowers and trees, he tried to create the first batch of Chinese characters through long-term observation and according to its modeling characteristics. These Chinese characters are hieroglyphs.

Ideographic characters, also called picture characters, are the basis of Chinese characters. The shape of characters is very similar to that of indicating objects, and relying on the shape of objects to express meaning is the essence of hieroglyphics.

Most common Chinese characters belong to pictographs, which are independent fonts. Such as sun, moon, water, fire, mountains, fields, mouths, doors, horses, cows, sheep and so on. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions and seal script, hieroglyphics are closer to the original shape of objects.