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Character riddles are a game in which one aspect of a Chinese character's form, sound, and meaning is utilized to create a riddle that elicits a guess of another Chinese character. Character riddles are a traditional Chinese word game and a form of traditional lantern riddles.

It is also a linguistic and cultural phenomenon unique to China. Character riddle-guessing is mainly based on the characteristics of square Chinese characters with complicated strokes, relatively independent radicals and varied structural combinations, and utilizes a variety of ways such as clutching, adding and subtracting, hieroglyphics and ideograms.

With the rapid development of the mobile Internet, the traditional Chinese character game has also appeared in many versions of the app application, there are idioms riddles guessing, idioms crazy guessing, guessing idioms, guessing riddles, etc., which is the transformation of the paper into application software, to digitally promote the paper "revolution".

Character riddles have a long history in China, and are widely circulated with many varieties and changes. It was popular among the literati, and was also used in political struggles and prophecies. In modern times, charades are more popular as a kind of high-level entertainment activities in the folk, loved by the masses.

Through the form of riddles, people have carried out all kinds of splitting and separating of regular Chinese characters not according to the principle of philology, and in the process of this kind of unpredictable form separating, not only have the characteristics of form knotting contained in the Chinese characters themselves been emphasized, but also people's intuitive understanding of the structure of Chinese characters' forms has been fully manifested.

The riddles are the unique aesthetic concepts and traditions of Chinese culture, which are Chinese culture, Chinese thinking, Chinese knowledge, Chinese literature, Chinese wisdom, Chinese fun, Chinese games, Chinese aesthetics and Chinese mood. It is not only integrated into Chinese cultural traditions, but also embraces the whole of Chinese life.

It is y rooted in the local cultural soil to satisfy people's life and survival needs, and to maintain, consolidate, and promote the unique Chinese civilization carrier of Chinese character culture and literature. This is where the cultural value and significance of the riddle culture is passed on from generation to generation.