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A Preliminary Study of the Rhetoric of Chinese Characters

Jian Zhou

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Chinese characters have originated from pictographs and developed into morpheme-syllable characters.With a variety of forms,Chinese characters far exceed the letter scripts in rhetoric capacity and form.Among various rhetoric means,the most typical is to disassemble and combine Chinese characters,which has been proved with typical examples in this paper.The second typical means is the use of radicals and components.

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Chinese characters have originated from pictographs and developed into morpheme-syllable characters.With a variety of forms,Chinese characters far exceed the letter scripts in rhetoric capacity and form.Among various rhetoric means,the most typical is to disassemble and combine Chinese characters,which has been proved with typical examples in this paper.The second typical means is the use of radicals and components.

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Chinese characters have originated from pictographs and developed into morpheme-syllable characters.With a variety of forms,Chinese characters far exceed the letter scripts in rhetoric capacity and form.Among various rhetoric means,the most typical is to disassemble and combine Chinese characters,which has been proved with typical examples in this paper.The second typical means is the use of radicals and components.

Key concepts: Rhetoric, Chinese characters, Syllable, Morpheme, Scripting language, Variety (cybernetics), Linguistics, History

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