说“盾”

On“Dun( 盾) ”

《说文》小篆盾是隶楷盾的前身,字形结构并不复杂,却一直得不到合理的解释,其中的一条重要原因,就是对曾侯乙墓竹简文字的特点认识不够。曾简文字是迄今为止书写年代最早的竹简文字,保留了不少早期的写法,比一般战国文字要古得多。就曾侯乙墓竹简所存字形结构分析来看,盾本是在象形的基础上加允声构成的,后来字形发生讹变,便成了小篆的样子。

The graph'dun( 盾) 'in Zhuan( 篆) script from the Shuowen jiezi( 《说文解字》) is the origin of the character'dun'written in the Li( 隶) and Kai( 楷) scripts. Though the structure of this graph is not complicated,there is no reasonable interpretation of it. In this paper,the author found an earlier origin of this graph from the bamboo slip manuscripts of Tomb of Duke Zeng Yi( 曾侯乙),and analyzing its composition,with the conclusion that the graph dun is composed by the pictograph dun and the phonetic component'yun( 允) 'which was added later,and as a result of the error transformation,it is written as the shape in the Zhuan script.