带指事性质的象形字与指事字辨析

The Pictographs and Their Symbolic Meaning in Chinese

从概念上来说,“六书”中的每种汉字结构的归类都是明确的,但就一个汉字来说,究竟属于哪种构字法,有时却不易确定。所以,诸多学者倾向于“三书说”,将象形、指事归为一类,但这只是在回避问题。其实,象形、指事有明显的区别,存在于带指事性质的象形字与指事字之间。

In conception, the category of every Chinese character structure in the book ＂Liu-shu＂ is definite, but it is not clear to judge one Chinese character belongs to which structure. So many scholars incline to San-shu Shuo, and classify pictographic words and self-explanatory words in the same category, but it is only avoiding problems. In fact, there are obvious differences in them, which consist in pictographic words with self-explanatory character and self-explanatory words.