A Study Of The Pictophonetic Characters Of 《the Medical Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs Of The Han Dynasty In Wuwei Of Gansu Province》

Pictophonetic characters in Oracle had their forms and Chinese characters were already pictophonetized by Zhou and Jin dynasties. As the time fly, the amount of pictophonetic characters was situated in the increasing state. On the other hand,as one of the most important and significant discovers were invented in the times of the great production of pictophonetic characters.The paper will employ The Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Wuwei of Gansu Province as the research material, and it will begin from the general knowledge of pictophonetic characters and analyze some aspects of their types and the locations of phonetic and graphical components, the frequency of composing words, the comparison between phonetic and graphical components, etc. to research the situation of the used pictophonetic characters in The Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Wuwei of Gansu Province in order to explore their ranks and function in the whole history of development of pictophonetic characters.The paper is composed of five chapters, adopting methods of analysis to achieve the exhaustive statistics.Chapter One General Introduction discusses the position of pictophonetic characters in the development of Chinese characters, and instructs the value and significance of the study of pictophonetic characters in The Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Wuwei of Gansu Province. Then it introduces the material The Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Wuwei of Gansu Province, and instructs the general knowledge.Chapter Two The General Introduction of Pictophonetic Characters will supply the exhaustive statistics of words used in the book The Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Wuwei of Gansu Province, and which will provide the figures of the words composed by one component one by one. Then the paper classifies the common pictophonetic characters composed one phonetic and graphical ingredient and make form for them, and calculates the number of pictophonetic characters of each type and their percentage.Chapter Three The Study of Phonetic Ingredients of Pictophonetic Characters and Chapter Four The Study of Graphical Ingredients of Pictophonetic Characters analyze the positions of rates of graphical and phonetic ingredients and regard it as the starting point to statistic the number of the characters composed by the graphical and phonetic ingredients and their frequency of their composing characters, and to analyze and generalize them in forms.