《说文》古文“甲”释义献疑

Discussion on the Explanation Error of the GuWen "甲(jia)" in ShuoWenJieZi

《说文解字》古文“甲”的释义有两种传承体系。两种体系的共通之处在于都赞成“成于木”,都出现“始”、“见”、“成”三个标示事物发展阶段的动词,以这一共通之处和“十”乃“甲”之假借的既有论断为前提,从汉字实际书写的角度出发,论证对《说文解字》古文“甲”的解释中“千”字为“屮”字之讹误,从而得出《说文解字》中古文“甲”的释义实为“始于十(甲),见于屮,成于木之象”的结论。

The explanation of ＂甲 （jia）＂, a Chinese character which is GuWen in ShuoWenJieZi, has two inheritance systems in the transmitting process, the consensus of which lies in both approving the argu- ment of ＂ending in 木 （mu）＂, and containing three verbs ＂始于（stem from）＂, “见于（appear as）＂, ＂成于 （end in）＂, which symbolize the evolving stages of a thing. Based on this consensus and the premise that ＂甲 （jia）＂ is a phonetic loan character of ＂甲 （jia）＂ and from the perspective of how the character was really written, the author attempts to demonstrate the error in the explanation of ＂甲 （jia）＂ in ShuoWenJieZi, which took ＂屮 （che）＂ as ＂千 （qian）＂, and conclude that the explanation of WuWen ＂甲 （jia）＂ in ShuoWen JieZi actually followed ＂the track of stemming from 十 （jia）, appearing as 屮 （che） and ending in 木（mu ） ＂.