"Shuowen Jiezi"
★"Shuowen Jiezi" was written by Xu Shen (ca. 58-ca. 147), a famous Confucian scholar and philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a Chinese The foundation work of philology. The book contains 9353 words of main text and 1163 words of emphasis, totaling 10516 words. There are 133441 words of explanation in the book, and the first 540 radicals arrangement method. Since its publication in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Shuowen Jiezi" has been highly praised by language and character researchers of all generations. It has become an important basis for future generations to study characters. It is the first major text in China and even the world.
★This book is based on Chen Changzhi’s edition in the twelfth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1873), and is revised based on Sun Xingyan’s copy of the Xu edition of the Song Dynasty in the fourteenth year of Jiaqing’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1809). It also refers to Duan Yucai’s " "Shuowen Jiezi Annotation", Zhu Junsheng's "Shuowen Tongxun Dingsheng", Gui Fu "Shuowen Jiezi Yi Zheng", Wang Jun "Shuowen Jiezi Reading", "Shuowen Explanation", Xu Hao's "Shuowen Jiezi Annotation" Notes" and recent research results, punctuation and collation.
★The first part of this book lists the small seal characters of the original book, followed by the prefixes of regular script. After the prefix of regular script, there are Hanyu Pinyin and Daxu version of Fanqie phonetic notation; secondly, there are explanatory texts of the original book; thirdly, there are translations and annotations. The translation is a translation of the explanatory text of the original book. The shape of the small seal characters and the correction of the explanatory text are all explained in the annotations. Xu Xuan's new characters are not recorded.
★The glyphs of this book are mainly based on Chen Changzhi's original version and Sun Xingyan's original version, and also refer to "Shuowen Jiezi Series Biography" and "Shuowen Jiezi Annotation". Variants of characters in the explanatory text are generally left unchanged. All taboo words will be changed.
★The source of the glyphs comes from unearthed cultural relics, inscriptions on bells and tripods, and ancient classics. The source identification is marked below each glyph.
★The "文×重×" at the end of each radical is a special term used to count each radical containing characters and Chongwen (the ancient character attached to the character). Due to the long circulation and the different engravings, there are often discrepancies in radicals, characters, and the number of important words. All these will not be changed to preserve the original appearance.
★It has been more than 1,900 years since the publication of "Shuowen Jiezi". The pronunciation of many characters has changed, or the Chinese pinyin and the Daxu version of the pronunciation are inconsistent. This book uses Chinese pinyin to indicate the modern pronunciation, while the pronunciation remains unchanged from the Daxu version.