Iconicity of Chinese Character and English Word Form

It is admitted that word form is shaped by many internal and external factors,such as cognitive,pragmatic,semantic,etc.Iconicity does not mean that language forms reflect the reality as the same way a mirror reflects an object directly,but it means that language forms show the way how people perceive and cognize the reality,namely,seeing from the view of experiential and conceptual structure,language signs are motivated in different ways,and they are not totally arbitrary.This paper looks into the iconicity of word forms from the theory perspective of Charles Sanders Peirce,and shows different features of iconicity of word forms in the Chinese and English languages.