Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong)


No. 3 , Pages 19 - 24 , 1999

Gu Jin Zi and the Features and Regularization of Chinese Characters (Article written in chinese)

ZHANG Jingqiu

Abstract

Gu Jin Zi, are the products of differentiation in the evolution of Chinese Characters. Certain characters with over-loaded meaning made communications difficult, while Gu Jin Zi had been created to differentiate meanings. A close relation can be traced between Gu Jin Zi and regularization of Chinese characters: the regularization will not succeed unless it is carried out with the features of Chinese characters as its significant reference. Only in relative sense can we talk about a regularized system of Chinese characters.

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