It is very common to see that some nouns surface as verbs in Old Chinese. These kinds of nouns are sources of both Chinese denominal verbs and multi-category words. This article systemically analyses denominal verbs in Old Chinese. Being a quantitative study, we classify 21 classic documents11Our corpus is based on twenty-one documents from Pre-Qin dynasty to West-Han dynasty which include Zhouyi (11thc.-771 BC), Shangshu (770-476BC), Shijing (770–476 BC), Zhouli (475–221 BC), Yili (403–221 BC), Liji(475BC-202AD),Zuozhuan (403–389 BC), Gongyangzhuan (156–143 BC), Guliangzhuan (around 201 BC), Lunyu (479–400 BC), Mengzi (372–289 BC), Guanzi (475 BC-188A D), Mozi (475–221 BC), Zhuangzi (475–221 BC), Xunzi (about 325–238 BC), Hanfeizi (about 275–233 BC), Lüshichunqiu (243–239 BC), Zhanguoce (221–209 BC), Huainanzi (188–87 BC), Shiji (about 91 BC), Lunheng (25–97 AD). according to two criteria: 1) depending on their syntactic distributions, their syntactic characteristics are summarized and 2) generalization of their categories according to the semantic roles of the origin nouns. In addition, this research is conducted from the perspective of language typology. By comparing denominal verbs in Old Chinese, Modern Chinese and the English language, we discover the typological sense of Old Chinese denominal verbs.