SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF CHINESE CHARACTERS WITH THE RADICAL 酉 “WINE VESSEL / WINE”

Abstract

The Chinese character as an independent object of linguistic research is of great importance, since it has an ability to act as a sign characterized by a universal linguistic nature. The research studies of Chinese characters for a better understanding of the mechanisms of interaction between language and human thinking, the influence of social, cultural and other factors on the functional and structural development of Chinese written language. The paper analyses the links within the Chinese characters with the radical 酉 “wine vessel / wine”, the patterns of functioning and development of these links between parts of a complex character. The article provides an etymological analysis of the elements of Chinese complex characters for their further study as elements with a certain semantic significance, namely, the ability of the phonetic part of the character to enter into semantic relations with the determinative. The author conducts a semantic analysis of Chinese characters with the radical 酉 “wine vessel / wine” and proposes their thematic semantic classification.