As for a single linguistic sign, arbitrariness is still the first principle, but as far as the compound and derivational words and the syntactic relation are concerned, the linguistic sign is iconic.

• 就语言的单个符号而言，任意性仍是语言符号的第一原则；但在复合词和派生词及语言组合关系及句法关系上，语言符号具有高度象似性。