The radical word "讠" is related to speaking or morality.
1. The source of words.
The oracle bone character "yan" is in the shape of "yan". Below it is the word "tongue", and the upper horizontal line represents "yan". Because the tongue can make controlled sounds, "yan" is the pictogram of speaking with the mouth and tongue. A commonly used character in modern Chinese and a first-level character, its original meaning is: speak, speak. Later, it was extended to include speech, words, decrees, oaths, suggestions and other meanings.
2. The words next to the words.
Xu: xǔ. Accept, approve. Recognize its merits. Group word: permission. Language: yǔ. talk. Refers to "proverb" or "ancient saying". Actions that take the place of words.
Word group: language. Poetry: shī. It is a literary genre with concise words, jumping structure, rich rhythm and rhythm, and highly concentrated reflection of life and expression of thoughts and emotions. Group words: poetry. Say: shuō. Use words to express meaning. introduce. speech. Group word: speak.
3. The evolution of words.
The evolution from the word "yan" to the word "讠" is the abbreviation of cursive writing. It promoted the production of simplified characters used today. "Mou Mian" is related to speaking, so "Yanbian" is used, which is an ideographic character and expresses speech. It is not a variant of "yan". Variant characters are a type of font with pattern or decorative meaning.
Words first appeared in oracle bone inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty. At that time, the meaning of yan was very simple, mainly referring to speaking. Later, with the continuous development, its meaning also continued to increase, and it was extended to refer to what was said, or a word or sentence that was said or written. This is the development of words.
In fact, in China's Chinese character culture, in addition to Chinese characters, there are many characters that originally originated from oracle bone inscriptions, and at that time, the meanings they expressed were relatively simple.
For example, next to "辶". "辶" is the same as "辵 (chuò)". The word "辶" means walking and stopping, walking and stopping. When used as a radical, "辶" is used. "辶" as the radical is commonly known as "Zuozhibian", or "Zouzhi" for short. Through the shape of the character "辵", it is not difficult for us to see that this character is related to walking. After all, the shape below "辵" is very similar to walking.