“字”在现代汉语里的意思是文字。汉字已经有了几千年的历史,其数量也越来越多。从最初的几十、几百个汉字,到今天的七八万个汉字,增加了几百倍。这么多的汉字,不可能都是象形字,事实上汉字里的象形字也就几百个,而且世界上有好多东西也没有办法把它们都画出来。比如说颜色,我们就不大可能在写字的时候把它们都一一表现出来,至于那些表示抽象意思的诸如伟大、美丽、热爱、厌恶等等,就更难画了。聪明的古人又想了一个办法。他 “Word ” in modern Chinese means text. Chinese characters have had thousands of years of history, the number is also more and more. From the first dozens and hundreds of Chinese characters, to today’s seven or eight thousand Chinese characters, an increase of hundreds of times. There are so many Chinese characters that can not all be pictographs. Actually there are hundreds of pictographs in Chinese characters, and there are many things in the world that can not be drawn. For example, color, we are not likely to put them all at the time of writing them all, as those who said the abstract meaning such as great, beautiful, love, disgust and so on, even more difficult to draw. Clever ancients thought of a solution. he