谈汉字形声化与汉语词汇双音化

On the Pictophoneticization of Chinese Characters and the Disyllabization of Chinese Vocabulary

有关汉字形声化与汉语词汇双音化的讨论今天分属于汉字学与词汇学。其实,两者的关系密不可分。古代汉语以单音节词为主,形声字通过分流词义缓解了单音节词多个义项与理解和判断之间的矛盾。此后又出现了汉语词汇的双音化,观察单音节词所面临的困境以及形声造字方法对该困境所起的作用是探寻汉语词汇双音化产生原因的重要途径。

The discussion of Chinese characters pictophoneticization and Chinese disyllabic evolution have classified to the science of Chinese characters and lexicology respectively.However,they are inseparable.Ancient Chinese are mainly Monosyllable characters,pictophonetic characters reduce the contradiction of multiple meaning and judgement of monosyllable by differentiating the meaning.Then,the Chinese disyllabic evolution appeared.Observation of the difficulties of monosyllable characters facing and the effect to the difficulties caused by pictophonetic characters is the main way to explore the reasons of Chinese Disyllabic Evolution.