Song is a commonly used Chinese character, which was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the left side of the word "Song" is "Gong", which means pronunciation; On the right is "wood", which means word meaning. In Xiao's seal script, the left and right positions of "male" and "female" are exchanged, but the meaning has not changed. The original meaning is the name of the tree, pine tree.
Shuowen: "pine, wood also." In other words, "pine" is the name of a tree, an evergreen or deciduous tree with a long age.
The word "Qiao Song" is commonly used in ancient books, which refers to the immortal Pinus densiflora and Wang Qiao in ancient legends. Later generations often use "Qiao Song" to refer to people who live in seclusion or have a long life, such as "Old Tang Shu Wei Zhi Biography": "You can support Qiao Song's life."
Introduction of pictophonetic characters:
Pictophonetic characters are formed on the basis of pictographic characters, signifier characters and cognitive characters, and consist of two words or words, which are composed of signifier (phonetic symbol) representing meaning category and phonetic symbol (phonetic symbol) representing sound category respectively.
Pictophonetic characters are the most effective way of word formation. Generally, ideographic characters or signifiers are used as symbols, while phonetic symbols can be used as pictographs, signifiers and cognitive characters.
Ideographic characters of pictophonetic characters:
The signifier of a pictophonetic character can only express the range of a certain meaning or the category of things, so it is only a highly generalized class name in pictophonetic characters and cannot express the specific meaning of this pictophonetic character. For example, the words "Xiang", "Ti", "Yan" and "Dian".
Because the signifier is only a category that expresses a certain meaning, the size and width of the category can be different, so many pictophonetic characters with the same signifier are related, but this relationship may be the same, similar, interlinked or the opposite. For example, pictophonetic characters from the sun, such as sunny, bright, ambiguous and fragrant, all contain bright meanings; Late, vague, dark, gloomy, etc. It has a vague meaning.