万光泰《说文》研究考述

Wan Guangtai's Research on Shuowen Jiezi

清代学者万光泰在音韵学研究上成就非凡,在《说文》研究上也卓有成绩。其《说文》研究,重视音韵问题,《说文》谐声与《诗经》用韵结合,是他研究汉语上古音的一个基本方法。在古音研究上,坚持同谐声者必同部的原则,将《说文》谐声偏旁字胪列成十九个韵部。另外,万光泰还研究了《说文》读若,从中考察汉代音韵情况。在《说文》六书研究上,提出了"四体二用"说,早于戴震研究。而从《说文》训诂出发,将其中一些语句凝练成一组组的骈偶句,也是万光泰《说文》研究的重要特色。

The Qing Dynasty scholar Wan Guangtai had an extraordinary achievement on phonology and he also did well on Shuowen Jiezi's research.His studies on Shuowen Jiezi was stressed on phonological problem.One of the basic methods for him to study the ancient Chinese pronunciations is to combine Shuowen Jiezi's harmonic sounds with rhymes in The Book of Songs.He adhered to the principle of 'same sound must be in the same category' on the ancient sound research and devided Shuowen Jiezi's harmonic sound radical characters into nineteen rhyme categories.In addition, Wan Guangtai also studied duruo( 读若) in Shuowen Jiezi to inspect rhymes in Han Dynasty.He put forward the theory of 'four scripts and two usages' on the research of Shuowen Jiezi's six categories,which is earlier than Dai Zhen.Starting from the exegesis of Shuowen Jiezi, condensing some of the statements into a bundle of antitheses sentences is an important characteristic of Wan Guangtai's Shuowen Jiezi study