浅谈修辞思维与汉字造字

On Rhetorical Thinking and Character-building

汉字属于表意文字,但它并不是对事物的简单的素描,而是将客观事物高度概括后的符号表现形式,是人们思维的一种成果。修辞思维作为思维的有机组成部分,在汉字造字时发挥了不可或缺的作用。文章试图从字形研究入手,从修辞学的角度分析汉字造字,力求对汉字造字有一个新角度的认识。

Chinese characters belong to word writing system. However they are not simple pictures of physical objects, but signs derived from highly generalization of the objects. They result from thinking. As an organic constituent of thinking, rhetorical thinking plays an indispensable part in the course of character-building. This paper starts with a study of the shape of characters and then analyzes the character-building from the perspective of rhetoric in an attempt to provide a new understanding of character- building.