The invention of script is one of the icons of human civilization. The formative art of Chinese characters was classified into “six categories” in The Analytical Dictionary of Characters, from which we find a Chinesecharacteristic mode of thinking, namely, imagery thinking, intuition thinking or integrity thinking. Specifically, the pictogram and selfexplanation prescribe the imagery thinking; association and picotphonology, the intuition thinking; mutualexplanation and phoneticborrowing, the integrity thinking of the Chinese nation.

Chinese characters; formative art; mode of thinking; “Six Categories of Chinese Characters”