[摘要]汉字形体主要有象形、指事、会意、形声四种结构特征。通过这样的构造，汉字具有表意性的特点，而且是对当时的社会形态及文化的一种写实主义表现。这四种结构特征也带来汉字的笔画繁多的弊端。在人类发展史上，由于文字的工具性和易学便用的总趋势，汉字结构有其由难到易，化繁为简的必要性，简化字带来了书写、认读和记忆的便捷，符合社会发展的大潮流。但是，由于汉字构造的简化，简化字也造成了表意性的缺失，一简对多繁的现象及传统文化方面的流失。针对这种现象及问题，我们应继续推行简体字，倡导学习繁体字。

[关键词]汉字；构造；简化字；得失

[Abstract]Chinese characters mainly have four structural features . They are pictographs , self-explanatory characters , ideographic characters and pictophonetic characters . Through such structure , Chinese characters are ideographic and a kind of realistic performance on The social and cultural . The four structural features lead to the strokes of Chinese characters complicated . In the history of human development , characters have tool function and need easy to learn and convenient to use , so Chinese characters need to simplify . The simplified Chinese characters let writing , reading and memory become easy and conform to the trend of social development . However , the simplified Chinese characters result in the lack of ideographic , the phenomenon of a simplified Chinese characters Corresponding a number of traditional Chinese characters and the loss of traditional culture . Aiming at the phenomenon , we should continue carrying out the simplified Chinese characters and advocate learning traditional Chinese characters . 

[Key words]Chinese characters ; structure ; simplified Chinese characters ; gain and loss