Briefly Discuss the Nature of Chinese Character

The study of the nature of Chinese character has a long history, it is not only a center part of the study about Chinese character theory but also an important subject study in Chinese character typology. Affirming the nature of Chinese character must be combine the characteristics of Chinese characters with different periods, and at the same time, putting the Chinese character study into the field of the study of all kinds of characters, observing it from different angle to analysis, compare and summarize the nature of Chinese character is also necessary. Depending on the two point above, from the way of how character symbol notes language, the relationship between character symbol and the form of character symbol, the nature of Chinese character is that Chinese character is a kind of syllable writing--- morphological and phonetic writing ideographic and phonetic writing--- graphic and symbolic writing.