| From the initial notating symbols to the later cultural symbols with rich connotation, the word"San"as a commonly used numerals has developed into rich "San" culture and endured a long developing process.This article from the perspectives of the semantic and rhetoric, investigate its semantic features and the producing ways of rhetoric semantic meaning, and discussing that rhetoric mode influences the idiomatic phrase of "San", and expounding the cultural connotation of "San" from the angle of culture.With the investigation into the "San" and the words include "San", we come to learn that "San" has been experienced with two phases:abstracted and modelled. In this process, the "San" semanteme gradually weakened, more points to its semantic rhetoric. The pathways of forming retoricization of semantic can be roughly epitomized into four parts: metonymy, analogy,allusion and hyperbole. The metonymy and analogy are the important ways of its semantic formation. In addition, the rhetoric also plays an important role in the idiomatic phrase of "San". |