The Discuss On The Evolution Of The Ancient Chinese Characters's Pictophonetic Characters

This text from the dynamic, diachronic approach to the acoustic form of development of the system of Pictophonetic Characters Structure changes, reasons for the change, mechanisms and implications of it. The ancient Chinese characters is divided into four phases:The Shang Dynasty, The Western Zhou Dynasty,The Spring and Autumn Period and The Warring States period. When the total respectively, regardless of region and study the full order. At each stage, firstly the Pictophonetic characters were Singled out, and then word by word for configuration analysis, precipitation of sound symbols, pictogram; sort out their structural layout, structural level. The first which drew the Phonetic properties analyzed on property changes, the evolution of the Phonetic chart listed. Also by studying the form of sound words in the paragraphs "action word", explores the history of Pictophonetic context.This text Concluded that the Pictophonetic characters development the fundamental driving force is the Chinese character meaning expression of the characteristics of incentive under the guise of the phenomenon of large, long existence, mode of this is knowing the word of the composite structure; Pictophonetic characters development means there are three:analogy effect, type of effect (the radical-based), symbolic; principles are three:the need principle, the principle of proportionality, survival of the fittest. Effects are as follows:the nature of Chinese characters, enhanced sound and meaning of Chinese characters form the links, to improve the Productivity of Chinese characters. The conclusion that shaped the history of sound words have the following characteristics:of the formation of retaking, Sound symbol pictogram frequent replacement, structural instability of the layout, structure, complexity level, form tenaciously adhere to sound is the ideographic character of the performance.