Shuowen Jiezi, as the first dictionary in ancient China to systematically analyze the forms, meanings and etymology, contains different fonts popular in Qin and Han Dynasties, such as seal script, ancient prose and official script, and its wide range of words is the first in ancient China.
At the same time, Shuo Wen Jie Zi is also the first in the way of arranging characters by radicals and the basic theory and method of analyzing the structure of characters, which provides a precedent for the compilation of later reference books. Shuowen Jiezi, due to its extensive collection, recorded a large number of ancient words and preserved the ancient meanings of many words and rich ancient cultural materials. Therefore, this book is not only an indispensable reference book for studying the development of ancient Chinese characters and ancient books, but also an annotation of ancient books.
It is precisely because Shuo Wen Jie Zi is rich in content that it has initiative in interpreting, analyzing and arranging radicals, which is directly helpful for us to study and understand the structure and stroke structure of Chinese characters from the differences of glyphs and meanings, and also provides strong support for us to study Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. Shuowen Jiezi has a great influence on our study of the origin and development of Chinese characters in China today, especially in understanding the content of Chinese characters, pictophonetic characters and using Chinese characters under the guise.