论汉语用字演变过程中新用字符的来源——以殷墟甲骨文所见传承词为例

On the Origin of New Characters in the Evolution of Chinese Characters —— Taking the Inherited Words in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Dynasty Ruins as Examples

汉语的字词关系是动态演变的,不少词语的用字习惯经历了历时更替的过程。从殷墟甲骨文所见传承词的用字演变过程来看,汉语新用字符主要来源于旧字构形的传承、他词本字的借用、全新本字的重造等途径。词语用字演变研究是汉语字词关系研究的重要维度,也是汉字发展史研究的题中之义,值得学界进行更多、更系统的研究。

The relationship between words and characters in Chinese is a dynamic evolution. For plenty of words, the characters used to record them have changed several times in the history. Judging from the evolution of Chinese characters recording inherited words in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the new characters recording Chinese mainly come from the inheritance of old characters, the borrowing of the same characters in other words and the reconstruction of completely new characters.Research on the evolution of Chinese characters recording certain words is an important dimension of the research on the relationship between Chinese characters and words, which is also the key of the research on the history of Chinese characters, deserving more systematic research in the academic circle.