What are the characteristics of the development of ancient and modern Chinese in terms of word meaning?

Simply put: there was a word in ancient times, and now there are words being created

The same word was expressed by different words in different periods, and then there were ancient and modern words, and the former ones were called "ancient words", and the later ones were called "modern words".

The ancient and modern characters are divided into two categories: Category A equivocal

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, that is, the meaning of the ancient and modern characters is exactly the same

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Being the same as the other two, such as 凷/

块、? Category B is not equal in meaning, i.e., the meaning of ancient and modern characters is not exactly the same, such as Mo/Mu, Jing/Ying, Pai/Avoid, etc. Category A is a one-to-one relationship between ancient and modern characters, the generation of modern characters does not involve the differentiation of the yield of Chinese characters, the ancient and modern characters are the same characters, is a category of variant characters. Category B is not a one-to-one relationship between ancient and modern characters, the creation of modern characters is the result of the development of Chinese characters in the yield of differentiation; there are some other due to the meaning of the characters and the formation of the relationship between ancient and modern characters.

There are two kinds of characterization for your reference

1. The present character is often made by adding symbols to the form of the ancient character, and it becomes the special character for a certain item of the ancient character, which distinguishes the many items of the ancient character. In terms of the era of its creation, the present character must be later than the ancient character, so the present character is also called the special character, differentiated character, later character.

2. Ancient and modern characters are relative in nature, and the meaning of a word carried by a Chinese character may change with the times. In order to cope with such changes, the descendants created new characters; after a long period of time, the objects carried by the new characters changed again, so newer characters were created to adapt to them. In this way, the original word has become an ancient word.

1. Time: ancient and modern characters ancient and modern characters have a different order, time.

2. Morphologically: the ancient and modern characters of the ancient and modern characters have a glyphological relationship (or increase the ideograms, or change the ideograms).