本文之作旨在从语言学的角度重析与介说汉字学，及其与马、英文字学之间的异同关系。传统汉字学所瑛论的汉字起源、演变、结构与变异，实际上与语言学所谓的词源学与构词学之向容无异。这也是说，汉字与马、英文字之间的结构差异，可说是形声字与指事字的不同，或语言一构词学所谓的复合法与祠缀法之差异。言下之意，藉由本文的阅读与理解，读者将时汉字的性质与体系及其与马、英文字之间的不同，取得一初步但系统的认知。

This paper aims to promote our knowledge of the Chinese writing system from a comparative viewpoint with two other local writing systems, that is, the Malay and English languages in Malaysia. The traditional understanding of the Chinese writing system -- its origin, evolution, structure and variation - concerns etymology and morphology in linguistics. The Chinese writing system, from a morphological point of view, is formatted absolutely by 'compounding' two or more free morphemes / characters (or'huiyi' in the Chinese writing system). Malay and English, on the other hand, are formed mainly by 'affixation' (or ‘zhishi’). The nature of the Chinese writing system, its differences and similarities with the Malay and English writing systems can be better explained by this etymological and : morphological approach.