摘要
中国古代文字尤其是独体字,一般来说都有用形象来表意的特点,所以研究古文字理应从独体字入手。东汉文字学家许慎未见过甲骨文等早期文字,在分析形声字时,不理解某些形符的特征,因而采用"以声定义"的方法,将作形符的独体字谬解。把"自"当"鼻"来讲,就是此例。
Generally speaking, ancient Chinese characters, especial the simple ones that are on many occasions radicals in other characters, are pictographs. Therefore, the study of ancient Chinese characters should begin with the simple ones. The most famous linguist, Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty proposed that 'the meaning of characters, which are made up two radicals one of which represents meaning and the other sound, can be determined by their sounds' simply because at that time the ascriptions on bones and tortoise shells were not discovered yet and thus he was not able to understand the shapes of some radicals which are used to indicate meaning and misinterpreted some simple characters among which 'zi', which he misinterpreted as 'bi' (nose), is an example.
出处
《山东大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
北大核心
2003年第4期50-52,共3页
Journal of Shandong University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
关键词
自
辛
王
王权
脖颈
zi
xin
wang
royal authority
neck
