浅谈汉字部首的变革及其分类

A First Study of the Evolution and Categorization of Radicals of Chinese Characters

本文浅谈部首的变革形式及其分类原则。前者归纳出部首的“分化”“归并”“混同”“变异”“精简”五种方式 。

The purpose of this paper is twofold:1)It describes the ways of transformation,namely,division,merging,mixing up,variation and simplification,and 2)It summarizes two principles of categorization of radicals:that of philology and that of indexing system.