A Brief Discussion on the Special Form Ellipsis in Ancient Chinese Characters
In the history of Chinese characters,pictophonetic characters have the ellipsis in sound and form.There is a special ellipsis form phenomenon in the ancient Chinese characters.The investigation of some related characters indicates that the sound can be completely elided in pictophonetic characters.Ideograms can also omit a part of the form and become characters that don't seem relevant to themselves.These are not the results of the writers'faults,but of the intention to write the characters more easily.
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