Study on the Influence of the Policy of Uniformity of Script on the Diachronic Replacement of"ju"and"lü"
After combing the unearthed documents,the paper observes that the characters"lü"(履)and"ju"(屦)were used interchangeably and that they were also written as a number of variant forms during the Warring States Period.Under the influence of policy of Uniformity of Script,this problem was solved respectively during the period of the Qin dynasty.According to the investigation of unearthed and handed down documents from the pre-Qin to the early Western Han dynasty,the character ju was eventually replaced by"lü"and"lü"became a commonly used word for"shoes"no later than the Qin dynasty,resulting from the policy of Uniformity of Script.This case shows that policy of Uniformity of Script did have an important impact on the change of Chinese words.
policy of Uniformity of Scriptcommon words"ju""lü"diachronic replacement