As an ideography of abundant semantic contents, the Chinese character is a closed set with limited number while the Chinese word is an open system which is unlimited.

• 摘要汉字是表义文字，具有丰富的语义内容，汉字是一个有限的封闭集，它的数目是有限的，而汉语的词是一个开放系统，它是无限的。