“鲲”字音义考辨

Phonetic and Semantic Transcription of the Word Kun

《庄子》中最重要的一篇是《逍遥游》,而其中最重要的是鲲鹏意象。古今中外的解说家对“鲲”字进行了不同的阐释。本文考察其音、形、义及其文人使用情况,归纳出“鲲”在文学作品中是巨鱼形象,鲲鱼形象对后世文学产生了重要的影响。

The important article in Zhuangzi is Transcendent Bliss, but among them the most important is the idea of Runpeng（enormous legendary bird transformed from a gigantic fish）. As for word kun,the annotation of Chinese and foreign countries gives us different explanations. This text investigates its sound, form, meaning and its usage by scholars, and induces the kun is a huge fish image in literary works. The image of kun fish has an important in fluence on literature.