Waterfall is a polyphonic character with pinyin of pù and bù ao. When pronounced as pù, it means that the water descends steeply from a mountain, and it looks like a white cloth hanging down from a distance, like a waterfall. When pronounced as bào, it refers to the name of water. In Hebei province, China, there is a river called waterfall river Bàohé, hail river, also called baohe river, which can also refer to rainstorm.
Etymological evolution
Bào, Department of Medicine; Couplet, rhyme and thin newspaper clippings.
P Department of Medicine and Medicine; Combine new buttons, house rhyme and pumu cut.
Pictophonetic characters originate from water and the sound of violence. Shuowen: Waterfalls, Torrential Rain. The poem says: the wind blows the waterfall. Press: Today's "poetic style is the final wind" is the "final storm". "Rainstorm" is like saying "rainstorm". The water splashed again. Said: "It's a bubble." Tang's "The Sound and Meaning of the Classics" volume ten quoted "Cang Jie" and said, "Water? Starting from the waterfall. " Also, the name of water Waterfall River, in the northeast of Hebei Province. Look at the above meaning. It's another sound. Waterfalls.
Kangxi dictionary
Guang Yun's flat newspaper clippings and rhyme club's thin newspaper clippings. The sound storm "Shuowen" is also rainy.
It is also foggy. Guo Pu Fu Jiang blows waterfall foam.
Guang Yun, Park Mu, Ji Yun, Yun Hui and Zheng Yun? A reliable servant. The flying spring is dripping with water. Sun Chuo's Ode to the Tiantai Mountain falls to the world.
And "Jiyun" is full of corners and hail. ? Waterfalls, boiling water. "Zuo Si Shu Du Fu" Longchi? waterfall
It's also a waterfall, with rough waves. Guo Pu Fu Jiang? Waterfalls. Ben Zuo? .
Gradually change from drawing to stroke in form.
In form, it gradually changes from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols, and complex to simple; In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Except for a few Chinese characters, such as Zi, Zi, Zi, Chi and Zi are all one Chinese character and one syllable. Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters.
Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, big seal script and small seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area. The earliest extant Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC and later bronze inscriptions.