Abstract:
By reinterpreting The Mutually Explanatory Characters in Chinese in his Generallyinterpreted Affirmation of Pronunciations in The Motivations of Characters, Zhu Junsheng brought his semantic theory into practice in studies of The Six Categories of Chinese Characters. His associations of The Mutually Explanatory Characters in Chinese go beyond the limitations of font styles, thus assuring a complete sequence of word semantics to certain degrees, which expresses Zhu’s ideal design of relationships between word forms and meanings. On the other hand, however, totally denying the derivative relationships between Chinese characters shows his historical limitations in understanding the relationships between word forms and meanings.