Chapter 1
Origin of Chinese Characters
1.1 Neolithic Signs in China： Embryonic Forms of Chinese Characters
1.2 Ancient Pottery Signs： the Precursor of Chinese Characters
1.3 Mapping Non-linguistic Symbols onto the Language System of Chinese
Chapter 2
Evolution of the Forms of Chinese Characters
2.1 Oracle Scripts 甲骨文
2.2 Bronze Scripts 金文
2.3 Great Seal Scripts 大篆
2.4 Small Seal Scripts 小篆
2.5 Clerk Scripts 隶书
2.6 Cursive Hand Scripts 草书
2.7 Regular Scripts 楷书
2.8 Running Hand Scripts 行书
Chapter 3
Pictographs
3.1 What Is a Pictograph?
3.2 Pictographs Describing Human Body
3.3 Pictographs Describing Animals
3.4 Pictographs Describing Plants
3.5 Pictographs Describing Dress and Implements
3.6 Pictographs Describing Astronomical and Geographical Phenomena
Chapter 4
Indicative Characters
4.1 What Is an Indicative Character?
4.2 Indicative Characters Composed of Pictograph plus Symbol
4.3 Indicative Characters as the Pure Symbols
Chapter 5
Ideographs
5.1 What Is an Ideograph?
5.2 Ideographs Composed of Identical Elements
5.3 Ideographs Composed of Different Elements
Chapter 6
Signific-phonetic Characters
6.1 What Is a Signific-phonetic Character?
6.2 Signific Element on the Left and Phonetic Element on the Right
6.3 Phonetic Element on the Left and Signific Element on the Right
6.4 Signific Element at the Top and Phonetic Element at the Bottom
6.5 Phonetic Element at the Top and Signific Element at the Bottom
6.6 Signific Element on the Outside and Phonetic Element on the Inside
6.7 Phonetic Element on the Outside and Signific Element on the Inside
6.8 Signific Element in a Corner
6.9 Phonetic Element in a Corner
6.10 Horizontal Expansion and Vertical Extension of Signific-phonetic Characters
Chapter 7
Mutually Defining Characters
7.1 What Is a Mutually Defining Character?
7.2 Some Important Mutually Defining
內容試閱：
Written script is an important part of culture and an invaluable cultural treasure. Written symbolsare considered to be carriers of culture, crystals of human wisdom, the essence of humancivilization, and a pearl-like artifact illuminating the progress of human beings. To be able tocommunicate through writing is something highly remarkable and exclusive to human beings.Nowadays, Chinese culture and its carriers are increasingly appealing to international scholars andfriends, who are eager to have an overall and in-depth understanding of Chinese characters. In theTCSOL i.e. teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages, current and future learners of Chineselanguage also show interest in learning Chinese characters. This book, written in English, presentsthem with the basics about the development and structure of Chinese characters; it hopes tofacilitate their learning of Chinese characters and Chinese culture, which in turn promotesinternational communication and dialogue.？This book consists of ten chapters.Chapter 1 explores the origin of Chinese characters, introducing Neolithic signs as embryonic formsof Chinese characters, and ancient pottery signs as the precursor of Chinese characters,differentiating between linguistic and non-linguistic symbols.Chapter 2 sketches the forms of Chinese characters along the history of evolution, including oraclescripts, bronze scripts, great seal scripts, small seal scripts, clerk scripts, cursive handscripts, regular scripts, and running hand scripts.Chapters 38 are devoted to the "Liu Shu" principles six logographic principles respectively. Thecompositional motivation of characters is explained and illustrated with sample characters. For mostof the samples, this book provides the form variations of oracle scripts, bronze scripts, and smallseal scripts. For some characters, there is no final conclusion about the particular forms, so therelevant forms are left out.Chapter 3 explains the pictographs denoting the humani
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