Shuo Wen Jie Zi adopts the format of "from a certain to a certain" when annotating intentional words, indicating that the word is written this way because its meaning is related to several components that make up the word. You can also see a kind of "congmou", which is a pictophonetic character. "Congmou" is an ideographic character, and "a certain sound" is a phonetic symbol. This should be easy to understand.
There is also a kind of "from a certain, a certain also sounds", which is called the sound-knowing pictophonetic character. For example, the interpretation of "marry" is "take it from a woman, and take it from a sound", which means that "take" is related to both righteousness and sound.
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Shuo Wen Jie Zi consists of fifteen volumes, taking Xiao Zhuan as the research object, and referring to ancient Chinese and essays other than Xiao Zhuan, among which one to fourteen volumes are written descriptions and fifteen volumes are narrative titles. Each volume is divided into two parts, which is actually thirty volumes. * * * has 9353 prefixes, 1 163 repetitions (ancient Chinese, variant characters, etc. ). The prefix is mainly Xiao Zhuan, which includes both ancient Chinese and variant characters.
Shuowen Jiezi is the first radical in China, with 540 branches, starting from the "I" department and ending at the "Hai" department. The prefix of the same word is radical and marked "All belong to a certain".
The text part focuses on the analysis of glyphs, and Shuowen takes "Wen" (mainly single); "Interpretation" focuses on the interpretation of the meaning of words, and the whole book takes "words" (mainly combinations) as the object of interpretation. Through the analysis of glyphs, the nature and types of characters are affirmed, and the three elements of meaning, shape and sound of characters and their close relationship are explained. The order of explanation is to explain the meaning of each word first, then explain the form, and then explain the pronunciation. The book takes "Six Books" as an example to unify the book.
The number of "ancient prose" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is 474, which mainly refers to the book in Confucius' wall and the biography of Zuo Shi in Spring and Autumn Period discovered in Han Dynasty. As far as the forms of ancient prose listed in Xushu are concerned, they are close to Wei Shijing Ancient Prose and Han Jian compiled by Guo Zhongshu in Song Dynasty. This kind of writing, also known as "tadpole writing", is an ancient writing that prevailed between Qi, Lu and Sanjin during the Warring States Period.