The study of iconicity of the linguistic signs has broken the monopoly of arbitrariness of the linguistic signs,which becomes a hotspot in today's cognitive linguistics and means much in understanding the relationship between language and cognition.The author,from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistics and in combination with the theory of universality in semantics proposed by Berlin and Kay,is to probe into the iconic laws of the basic color terms in English and Chinese so as to prove that the universality of human cognition results in the striking iconicity of order, se...