Chapter 1
Origin of Chinese Characters
1.1 Neolithic Signs in China: Embryonic Forms of Chinese Characters
1.2 Ancient Pottery Signs: the Precursor of Chinese Characters
1.3 Mapping Non-linguistic Symbols onto the Language System of Chinese
Chapter 2
Evolution of the Forms of Chinese Characters
2.1 Oracle Scripts (�׹���)
2.2 Bronze Scripts (����)
2.3 Great Seal Scripts (��׭)
2.4 Small Seal Scripts (С׭)
2.5 Clerk Scripts (�`��)
2.6 Cursive Hand Scripts (�ݕ�)
2.7 Regular Scripts (����)
2.8 Running Hand Scripts (�Е�)
Chapter 3
Pictographs
3.1 What Is a Pictograph?
3.2 Pictographs Describing Human Body
3.3 Pictographs Describing Animals
3.4 Pictographs Describing Plants
3.5 Pictographs Describing Dress and Implements
3.6 Pictographs Describing Astronomical and Geographical Phenomena
Chapter 4
Indicative Characters
4.1 What Is an Indicative Character?
4.2 Indicative Characters Composed of Pictograph plus Symbol
4.3 Indicative Characters as the Pure Symbols
Chapter 5
Ideographs
5.1 What Is an Ideograph?
5.2 Ideographs Composed of Identical Elements
5.3 Ideographs Composed of Different Elements
Chapter 6
Signific-phonetic Characters
6.1 What Is a Signific-phonetic Character?
6.2 Signific Element on the Left and Phonetic Element on the Right
6.3 Phonetic Element on the Left and Signific Element on the Right
6.4 Signific Element at the Top and Phonetic Element at the Bottom
6.5 Phonetic Element at the Top and Signific Element at the Bottom
6.6 Signific Element on the Outside and Phonetic Element on the Inside
6.7 Phonetic Element on the Outside and Signific Element on the Inside
6.8 Signific Element in a Corner
6.9 Phonetic Element in a Corner
6.10 Horizontal Expansion and Vertical Extension of Signific-phonetic Characters
Chapter 7
Mutually Defining Characters
7.1 What Is a Mutually Defining Character?
7.2 Some Important Mutually Defining