Duan Yu-Cai annotated Shuo-Wen, not only with explaining the shape, syllable, and meaning of every word, but also with the popular character of them. The amount of popular character is huge. Through arrangement and generalization, popular character could be resulted from six ways. In this research, the author explains every method with many examples, and draws a conclusion that those methods gave enough consideration to basic and variation, structure and function in popular character.