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On Chinese Character 　　【Abstract】Just as the long history of our country， Chinese characters also have their long histories through thousands of years. There have been many great scientific works or documents studying on the origin of Chinese characters. From them， it can easily be found that each Chinese character has its own history. If we study on the history of a specific Chinese character， its motivation will be found. 　　【Key words】Chinese character； motivation； language phenomina 　　Chinese is our mother tongue. But nobody dares to say that he is familiar with each Chinese character. Besides those Chinese characters we use frequently in our daily life， there are still others we may never hear or use. For these Chinese characters， we may have trouble in understanding them or even reading them out. For example， when we see “?住保? it is difficult for us to read it out quickly and know its meaning accurately unless we look it up. However， if we encounter with an unfamiliar word in English or in French， it is much easier for us to know its pronunciation at least. For instance， if we don’t know the word “thermodynamics”， we can get to know its pronunciation gradually because of English principles of pronunciation for there is no direct relationship between spelling and pronunciation of Chinese characters. 　　Each Chinese character has its own history and from a Chinese character， we can get some information about its meaning because Chinese characters are pictographs. For instance， when we talk about “吃”， just from the character itself， we can know there must be something related with our mouth. But when we say “eat” in English， we can hardly find something related with our mouth. So does French. In French， it is “manger” from which we can still find nothing related with our mouth. Chinese characters different from other languages have the exact meaning with themselves. 　　In Chinese， there are not many necessary principles to govern the use of Chinese language