THE CHINESE SCRIPT: AN ESSAY ON NOMENCLATURE (THE FIRST HECATON)

GRAMMA TONOMY (1), or GRAPHEMATICS (2), may be defined as the philological and linguistic discipline concerned with the study of the graphic forms of linguistic expression and communication and with the structural and historical analysis of a system of script, of its component units termed GRAPHS (3) (or ''-GRAMS'', in binary compounds, symbol: /G/) and subsumed GRAPHEMES /g/ (4), and of their relation to their phonetic and semantic counterparts treated in the allied fields of inquiry, PHONEMATICS (5) and SEMANTEMATICS (6). Within the general field of grammatonomy we may find useful to recognize the ancillary discipline of GRAMMATONYMY (7) devoted to the systematic development of a cogent nomenclature for graphs and graphemes and their structural characteristics.