中国文化 chinese culture
Chinese Characters Formation of Chinese characters Xu Shen (许慎; 58 –147), the Chinese philologist in the Han Dynasty summarized ―Six Ways‖ in his Shuo Wen Jie Zi: Pictogram, Ideograph, Logical Aggregates, Pictophonetic Compounds, Transfer, Loan. Later scholars pointed out that only the first 4 are the principle of constructing Chinese characters, the rest two are ways of using them.