Tang, a first-class Chinese word, is pronounced as Tang (táng), and its original meaning refers to dike.
Kangxi Dictionary: Guang Yun, Ji Yun, Yun Hui, Zheng Yun? Just after the cut, don made a noise. ? Yes Building soil to suppress water is called pond. Taitung, Gusu, Fucha and Hu Dan in Wu Yue Chun Qiu have vast lakes and gold and silver ponds.
"Qiantang Zhi" Cao Hua set up a new seawall and raised a pile of earth and stone, with a thousand dollars and people coming like clouds. It is said that soil is no longer needed. All abandoned. Tang Cheng is called Qiantang.
Qutang is in the east of Kuizhou. Qutang, called Xiling Gorge in ancient times, is the gate of the Three Gorges. "Du Fu's Poems" will attract thousands of people, and Qutang is the first door. Tonglin decoction
Pictophonetic characters are a method of creating Chinese characters, which are mainly adapted from the original pictographic characters, signifier characters and knowing characters, and represent the categories of things according to the fonts. There are many combinations of pictophonetic characters and phonetic symbols, such as left and right hands: Qing, San and Shi.
Left voice and right shape: merit, leadership and salvation; Up and down: dew, flowers, hills; Upper voice and lower form: fierce, forgetful and alert; Internal voice: smell, stuffy, braid; The inner voice of modeling: roundness, elegance and sincerity.
Advantages and disadvantages of pictophonetic characters
Advantages: "Pictophonetic characters" meet the needs of recording Chinese because of its structural mode of expressing sounds and meanings. It is the most effective way to create Chinese characters by expressing both sounds and shapes. More than 90% of modern regular script Chinese characters are pictophonetic characters, and new characters can be created (such as some newly created simplified characters and scientific characters).
Disadvantages: Generally speaking, the phonetic symbol side can not accurately represent pronunciation, while the phonetic symbol side of pictophonetic characters represents the pronunciation of words, but most of them are approximate sounds, which are not completely accurate. Some syllables are exactly the same as words in pronunciation, rhyme and tone, such as "health and loyalty"; Some initials and finals are the same but different in tone, such as "win, sing and release", while others are the same but different in finals, such as "wave, light and coal".