Features:

There are various ways of combining the form and phonetic characters of pictophonetic characters: some form characters are on the left and phonetic characters are on the right; On the right, the phonetic paraphrase is on the left; some form paraphrases are on the top and the phonetic paraphrases are on the bottom; some form paraphrases are on the bottom and the phonetic paraphrases are on the top; some form paraphrases are on the outside and the phonetic paraphrases are on the inside, or some form paraphrases are on the inside and the phonetic paraphrases are on the outside.

The pictophonetic characters are formed on the basis of pictographic characters, meaning characters, and ideographic characters. They are composed of two characters or characters, consisting of a sign (next to the shape) that represents the meaning category and a sound that represents the sound. It is composed of the phonetic symbols (paraphrases) of the categories. Pictophonetic characters are the most productive form of character creation. The meaning symbols are generally represented by pictographs or characters referring to things, while the phonetic symbols can be represented by pictographs, characters referring to things and characters that convey meaning.

In order to take into account the beauty of the strokes or configuration of a certain phonogram, at a certain stage of the evolution of Chinese character form, the glyphs or phonetic symbols were partially omitted and became the so-called omitted shapes or omitted sounds. For example, kill, kill the province, the sound of Shi; Qi, from the old province, the sound of the purpose; produce, from the birth, the sound of Yan; Ye, from the evening, also the sound of the province, etc.

Extended information:

In addition to marking phonetic sounds, the phonetic symbols of pictophonetic characters often also have the function of expressing meaning. The sound of a word in a language reflects its meaning or the origin of its meaning. The character is the written symbol of the word and the carrier of the sound and meaning of the word in the language. Therefore, the meaning of the word (actually the meaning recorded by the character) is often related to the pronunciation of the word. related.

The reflection of this phenomenon in phonograms is that in addition to phonetic symbols, phonetic symbols often also have ideographic functions. Bao, robe, hail, etc., which all come from the same sound talisman, all contain the meaning of wrapping.

Lun, Lun, Lun, Lun, Lun, etc., which are derived from the sound of Lun, all contain the meaning of order and order; Huan, Huan, Bi, Huan, etc., which are derived from the sound of Huan, all contain the meaning of greatness. meaning. The list goes on and on. Of course, phonetic characters often have multiple meanings, so the meanings in picophonetic characters are naturally not limited to one end. Therefore, the meanings of words that derive their sounds from the same phonetic symbol are often not the same.

Baidu Encyclopedia——Phonetic Characters