This paper studies the mountain place name characters of the "Shuo wen jie zi", including eleven ancient Chinese characters: "Nao(峱), Yi(嶧), Yu(嵎), Yi(嶷), Min( ), Ji( ), Jie(巀), Xue(嶭), Hua(華), Guo(崞), Yang(崵)". Those characters are all from the same radical of the "San"—mean about mountain on "Shuo wen jie zi", and neighbor in the "San" radical. Mountain place name characters in "Shuo wen jie zi", the character structure all added a radical "San", making it become a synthetic character. However, ancient Chinese geographical literature, the mountain place name not necessarily have the radical "San". Therefore, this paper will focus on the mountain place name characters of the "Shuo wen jie zi", research on structural principle related and the use cases on ancient literatures.

This article focuses on the place names in Oracle bone characters. We specially pay attention to Oracle bone place names “functional”. This paper absorbs former existing research results, comprehensively analyzes of Oracle bone place names according to the context and refers to scholars “Function-oriented” classification criteria. The function of Oracle bone place includes worship, hunting, military, agriculture, administration and construction. Different literae humaniores activities are carried out in different functional places. The functional anysis of places can help us to understand humaniores activities at Oracal bone period.