碑刻疑难异体字考辨八题

Studies on Eight Difficult Variant Characters in Stone Inscriptions

碑刻文献作为出土文献的重要组成部分,其大多时地明确,记载内容丰富广泛,文献真实性强,一定程度上可以弥补传世文献辗转传抄致误的缺陷和不足;但碑刻文献中往往多俗字、讹字、异体字等,为碑刻文献的准确释读与深入考证设置了诸多文字障碍,不利于对其有效科学利用。通过对碑刻文献中的八个疑难异体字进行考辨,举证字形与文献用例,究明字义,疏通上下文意,并进一步总结归纳字形演变规律,从而为碑刻疑难字考释乃至汉字发展史研究提供文献支撑和经验参考。

As an important part of the unearthed do cuments,stone inscriptions,to some extent,can remedy a defect or deficiency of the ancient literature,and most of them have definite times and locations,rich content and real and reliable literature. But there are lots of popular,mistaken and variant characters in stone inscriptions,they set up many obstacles for the accurate interpretation and further research into stone inscriptions,and make it difficult in scientific utilization. By studying on eight difficult and variant characters in stone inscriptions,giving examples in characters and illustrations of literature,inquiring character meanings,clearing physical meanings,this paper summarizes the evolution laws of characters so as to provide support documents and references for the research on difficult characters and history of Chinese characters.