从《说文》谐声系统看上古等第在谐声中的作用

The Role of divisions in Character Creation from Phonetic Character System in Shuowen

不少学者认为等第或者介音对谐声没有影响或影响不大,在进行上古音系统构拟时,以往的做法常常是把一个字在中古韵书中的等第直接倒推给上古,我们认为上述观点和做法值得商榷。本文通过对《说文》谐声系统的等第进行多角度分析,提出等第对谐声有非常重要的作用,中古的等第与上古并不完全相同。

Many scholars believe that divisions have no or little impact on phonogram character creation.In the previous approach,scholars often used to directly reverse the divisions of a character in the Middle Ancient rhyme book to the ancient character.We believe that the above viewpoint and approach are worth discussing.This article analyzes the phonetic character system of“Shuowen”from multiple perspectives,and points out that the four divisions plays a very important role phonogram character creation.The divisions in of Middle Chinese are not entirely the same as that of Ancient Chinese.