《字说》简评

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《字说》一书为晚清古文字学家吴大澂研究古文字的论文集д呙嵌愿檬榈奈淖挚际投嘤枰?积极评价,事实上其文字考释中误说颇多。尽管如此,该书诸文以字形分析为基础,以文献材料为佐证,以推理论断为补充,溯造字之源,析文字之孳乳,考文字之义训,是目前已知的学术史上古文字研究论文集中最早的一部,对独立的古文字学的形成具有积极意义。

Zi Shuo is a collection of Wu Dacheng＇ s papers on ancient Chinese writings, which is highly valued by scholars. In fact, there are many mistakes in this book. For all this, the papers in this book conducted research to the source of the word - formation, multiplying of the writing and meaning of the writing. It is the earliest collection researching ancient Chinese writings known in the academic history at present.