侯马盟书异体字研究浅论

Brief Discussion on the Research of the Variant Chinese Characters of Houma Covenant

本文所说的异体字包括异构字和反映文字某种演变规律的异写字,而不包括那些既没有别词作用、也不体现文字演变规律或者是出于某种偶然原因形成的异写形体。针对不同的文字构形系统,异体字研究的方法也应有所不同。文章提出异体字分级或分层次研究的课题,并探讨了侯马盟书文字系统的异体字研究方法。

The variant characters in this article include the heterogeneous characters and the different writing that reflects some certain laws of character evolution, but not including those which have neither the function to distinguish characters nor the reflection of the law of character evolution, or the ones which had been formed due to some accidental causes. For different configuration systems of the characters, the method of the study of variant characters should also be different. This article proposes a problem about classification or multilevel research of the variant characters, discussing the method of research to the variant characters in Houma Covenant character system.