我是在三十年代上中学时开始探索汉字改革问题的。一次偶然读到一位美国语言学家论汉字的书、其主旨为二:第一,汉语以使用人类社会最先进的二次复合构词法词为主,不但构词能力特强,而且可以收到“生词熟字”的奇妙效果。比如,“民主”一词,在印欧语系的各大语种里,均与英文的democracy大致相同。如果这个词在口语 I started to explore the issue of Chinese character reform in high school in the 1930s. An accidental reading of an American linguist’s book on Chinese characters, the main thrust of which is twofold: First, Chinese uses the most advanced two-way compound word formation in human society, not only has strong word formation ability but also receives Wonderful effect of “new word cooked”. For example, the term “democracy” is largely the same as the English version of democracy in all Indo-European languages. If the word is spoken