Research on Chinese word-formation

Pinyin text uses letters that are closely related to speech to record speech, but we don’t know much about how ideographic text is represented. We analyzed the relationship between the glyph and the meaning of nine thousand Chinese characters and found that the combination of the glyph is actually to construct imagery, and this imagery is the psychological representation of the experience situation that forms the concept of its character, so the meaning and glyph of the characters are ideographically connected. We find out the imagery and system structure of these 9,000 Chinese characters, and summarize the five cognitive modes of their combination. These results reveal the ideographic mechanism of the dual-code hierarchical combination of the internal formation of Chinese characters and its imagery, demonstrate the application of cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology in the study of ideographic characters, and put forward a guiding theory of Chinese word-formation.