Shuo Wen Jie Zi说文解字(for short,Shuowen说文)is usually regarded as a book for"analyzing the structure of Chinese characters",whose method of explaining Chinese characters and concrete analysis have been affirmed by academic history.This thesis believes that Shuowen was endowed with important pragmatic value,whose thought of"Chinese characters pragmatic"can be investigated from two aspects,i.e.Shuowen Xu 说文·叙 and interpretation of characters in the text of and Shuowen.In Shuowen Xu,Xu Shen reveals the essence of using characters in"Jiajie 假借"with"relying on pronunciation to explain things"and the use of"ancient writing古文"as ancient characters,which represented a concept of form on the surface,but actually refers to the structure of ancient characters and the characters usage in ancient documents.Xu Shen's definition of Chinese characters and the expression of the Chinese characters functions reflected the essence of Chinese characters usages.His criticism of misinterpretation of Chinese characters and explanation of the compiling purpose and principles of Shuowen are also reflected from the perspective of the use of characters.The explanation of each character in Shuowen focuses on the meaning,whose structure analysis is only the confirmation of the meaning;the"variant characters 重文"in Shuowen,e.g."ancient writing古文作某"and"some ancient writing某古文",is also in terms of the function of characters;"Yi Yue一曰"reflected the phenomenon of different uses of the same character.Shuowen often cited books to prove the meaning of characters.All these showed that Shuo Wen Jie Zi attaches great importance to the use function of Chinese characters from the purpose of serving the interpretation of Confucian classics,and revealed various relations of Chinese characters in many aspects.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi说文解字Chinese characters functionthe relationship between Chinese characters and wordsthe thought of"Chinese characters pragmatic"
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