Cognitive Pyramid of Radicals Selection in the Chinese Writing (Based on Object Nominations of Nature)

The article provides the structural and semantic analysis of character groups with determinatives-designations of natural objects in the Chinese writing. The composition and semantic characteristics of complex Сhinese signs with the determiners 日 ‘sun’, 山 ‘mountain’, 月 ‘moon’, 貝 ‘shell’ and 阝’hill’ are revealed. The set of semantic connections that organize complex signs into one character group is determined, on the basis of which the cognitive pyramid of motivational grounds for choosing determinatives-designations of natural objects in the Chinese language is built.