“Chi Mei Wang Liang” these four words have had different styles of writing in ancient books. With the development of history, they gradually set for “Gui” as their pictograph. The reason why the character patterns are different from today’s is that the people in that time had different subjective views about the meaning of the words. We can infer the Chinese characters’ develop and change from the character patterns’ variation of these four words. Pictograph’s accepted or reject are closely related with people’s subjective views about the meaning of the words, especially during the Chinese characters echoismed. And they also have something to do with the users’ hope that the two words’ forms and characters are harmonize when make up a word during the process of vocabulary disyllabification.

• 贾爱媛(青海师范大学人文学院) | JIA Ai-yuan