Compared with alphabetic writing, Chinese characters have certain functions of meaning expressing, activating people¡¯s imagination in semantics and pronunciation. Chinese characters have a large number of pictophonetic characters. The meaning part shows that the character is related to a certain object while the sound part shows approximately the pronunciation of the character. E.g. ¡°°Ö(dad)¡± (click to play): the meaning part is ¡°¸¸(father)¡±, indicating father; the sound part is ¡°°Í(ba)¡±, indicating the pronunciation. Some characters, such as ¡°³Ô(to eat)¡±and ¡°ºÈ(to drink)¡±, have a common part¡°¿Ú(mouth)¡±, because they are all related to the character ×죨mouth£©; some characters, such as ¡°½­(river)¡±, ¡°ºþ(lake)¡± and ¡°º£(sea)¡±, have a common part ¡°Ë®¡±, because they are all related to ¡°Ë®(water)¡±. As a result, learning Chinese characters by means of understanding its characteristics will achieve twice the result with only half the effort.