Symbolic Chinese Character and Chinese Character Symbols

The current definitions of Chinese characters,such as ideograph,fix their attention on only a certain aspect of its features.None of the summarizations are complete.Judging from the social function,basic structure,the Chinese characters are a kind of symbols,the symbolic Chinese characters. The character radicals in 《An Etymological Dictionary》,or other radicals derived from them are all the symbolic systems of the Chinese characters, and are findings of close study and analysis of the chinese character groups and their genealogy.They are the abstract descriptions of character groups,a scientific approach to recognize, to read ,to write the Chinese characters.