中國文字是表意文字的代表，並由形、音、義三要素結合而成。尤其是形聲字，這是中國文字結構「六書」體例中數量最多，也是中國文字結構原理極爲重要且豐富的一部分，而其組合則是以形符和聲符爲主軸，更重要的是大多數的聲符又兼具意符的內涵與作用，並可顯示先民造字時的社會思想與文化內涵。至於本文則以《說文解字》爲基礎，透過對聲符內涵的理解並予以串聯爲「字族」，可以快速且大量地學習漢字與詞彙，對華語教學裨益極大。

Chinese characters are composed of ‘symbols’. Apart from some exceptions , most ‘symbols’ contain their individual “shape”, “sound”, and “meaning”. Especially, Xingsheng [phono-semantic compounds] words make up the largest proportion of Chinese characters , which are composed according to the principle named liushu [Six Writings] . However , in the “Word Group” of Xingsheng these elements are best preserved , all these show that Xingsheng words are significant in Chinese , and this makes Xingsheng words especially important in the learning and teaching of Chinese.