汉代镜铭的同音通用字考察

An Investigation on the Homophone Borrowing Characters of the Mirror Inscription in the Han Dynasty

同音通用字是汉代镜铭常见的文献用字,表现出了丰富多样的用字特征,既反映了秦汉时期多通用字的共性,又有其自身特征,产生了一些弥足珍贵的同音通用字例。镜铭同音通用字的形成,一方面受到形声字发展与汉代用字缺乏规范的影响;另一方面又与东汉私人铸镜业的繁荣、民间镜工的文化水平不高直接相关。

The homophone borrowing characters are very common literature using characters of the mirror inscription in the Han Dynasty and show their rich and various using characteristics.They show their common features of many homophone borrowing characters in the Qinhan Dynasty and their personalities which produce some valuable homophone borrowing character examples.Their formations result from the development of phonogram and using characters which lack the standard of the Han Dynasty and prosperous private mirror manufacturing with folk mirror workers＇ low cultural education in the Eastern Han Dynasty.