Answer: There are 6 ways to create characters in "Shuowen Jiezi", which are:

(1) Pictogram, which uses concise lines to describe the shape of things. A method of creating characters, such as "sun", "moon", "fire", etc.;

(2) refers to things, a method of using symbolic symbols to express meaning, also called "xiangshi", such as "上" "Xia", "Mo", etc.;

(3) Understanding is a word-making method that combines two or more words to express a new meaning, such as "Twilight", "Wu", "Xiu" ", etc.;

(4) Phonogram, a method of combining new characters with ideographic symbols and phonetic symbols, such as "rent", "te", "kuang", etc.;

(5) Transfers and borrowings, such as "kao", "old", "ling", "chang", etc.