Terminologies about "Yuan" concentrated in medicine,astronomy and mathematics in ancient academic.Terminologies about "Yuan" would be endless in the modern academic.They involved in many subjects.On the basis of analyzing original meaning and its semantic evolution,this papers analyzed the semantics of "Yuan" in the ancient academic terminology and modern academic terminology respectively with scientific metaphor and other related theories. Then the papers summarized three kinds of semantic in the ancient academic terminology and thirteen kinds of semantic in the modern academic terminology.It further discussed the pragmatic phenomenon about "Yuan" in some academic contexts.This papers still researched the reasons why "Yuan" could be accepted by academic.
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