从“魑魅魍魉”看汉字形符变易的主观性

The Subjectivity of Chinese Characters' Pictograph's Variation From “Chi Mei Wang Liang”

"魑魅魍魉"四字,在古书中有过不同的写法,随着历史的发展逐渐定形为以"鬼"为形符的字,原因是当初人们对其所指各有不同的主观认识,因此字形和今天的不同。从这几个字的形体变易可以推知汉字的发展变化,尤其是汉字在形声化的过程中形符的添加与取舍都和人们对这个汉字所指事物的主观认识密切相关,也与词汇双音化过程中用词者希望组成一词的两字形体上相协调有关。

＂Chi Mei Wang Liang＂ these four words have had different styles of writing in ancient books.With the development of history,they gradually set for ＂Gui＂ as their pictograph.The reason why the character patterns are different from today＇s is that the people in that time had different subjective views about the meaning of the words.We can infer the Chinese characters＇ develop and change from the character patterns＇ variation of these four words.Pictograph＇s accepted or reject are closely related with people＇s subjective views about the meaning of the words,especially during the Chinese characters echoismed.And they also have something to do with the users＇ hope that the two words＇ forms and characters are harmonize when make up a word during the process of vocabulary disyllabification.