Zi (pinyin: zi) is a first-class Chinese character (commonly used). This word first appeared in the bronze inscriptions of Shang Dynasty, and its ancient glyph is like giving birth to a child in a house.
The original meaning of "word" refers to having children, which is extended to raising and also to women's engagement. In ancient times, pictographic characters were called "Wen", and the words bred on the basis of pictographic characters were called "Zi". Later collectively referred to as words, and extended to things written in words, such as fonts, calligraphy works, letters, notes and so on. "Zi" also refers to people's aliases, which is generally related to the meaning of the words used in names.
The meaning of words:
Writing is a way and tool for human beings to record and express information with symbols for a long time. Modern characters are mostly tools for recording languages. Before written words were produced, humans usually spoke languages. Many small languages have languages but no words. The differences in writing reflect the different ways of expression and thinking of the country and the nation, and writing has enabled mankind to enter a civilized society with historical records.
According to the phonetics and glyphs of characters, they can be divided into ideographic characters, phonography characters and logotype characters. Phonetics and morphemes can be divided into phonemes, syllables and morphemes. Hieroglyphs are hieroglyphics of early primitive human characters, such as: the sacred script of ancient Egypt, cuneiform script of two rivers valley, ancient Indian script, Mayan script of America and early Chinese characters.