白百同源,义为头颅

“白” and “百” Have the Same Origin with the Meaning of Skull

本文从体质人类学头颅观察角度对甲骨文白、百提出观点,认为■、■均为枯骨头颅象形,■为顶视形,■为枕视形,初义均指枯骨头颅。认为在甲骨文时代同为头颅之象的■、■的使用已经分化,■从枯骨头颅假借、引申为白与伯,■假为数目字百。■假作黑白字是借物言色。

The paper presents two hieroglyphs 白 and 百 of Oracle Bones through the angle of skulls of physical anthropology.It indicates that hieroglyphs of ■ and ■ all stand for skulls.■ stands for the top appearance of the skull,■ stands for norma posterior of the skull,which the original meanings are skulls.It infers that the use of ■ and ■ which all stand for skulls has already had the different meanings in the age of oracle bone inscriptions.■ was to be the phonetic borrowed characters and extended meaning as 白 and 伯 from skulls.■ was to be the phonetic borrowed characters from ■ and ■ as 百.And when ■ is used to be the phonetic borrowed characters as 白,it implies expressing colors by using objects.