汉字性质平议

关于汉字的性质，至今仍有许多歧见。根据汉字的表音性和表意性，证明“语素文字说”和“语素一音节文字说”并没有指明汉字性质问题。实际上，文字类型可以分为标音文字和标意文字，标意文字又分表意、意音、纯粹的标意三种类型。汉字在甲骨文、金文阶段以表意为主，篆书阶段以意音为主，隶变后逐渐向比较纯粹的标意文字发展，现代汉字可以视为带有少量标音成分的标意文字。

On the Characteristic of Chinese Characters

The analysis of the characteristics of Chinese characters shows that the morpheme-writing theory and the morpheme-syllabic-writing theory are both unclear to indicate the features of Chinese characters.There are two types of characters: sound-marking writing and sense-marking writing. The sense-marking writing has three different kinds: sense-showing system, sense-sound system and pure sense-marking system. Therefore, the characteristic of Chinese characters displays three states:a sense-showing system in Jiaguwen and Jinwen period,a sense-sound system in Zhuanshu period, and a pure sense-marking system and few sound-marking symbols.