明清小说俗写札记二则

Two Notes on Demotic Writing of Novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

研究汉语史需要运用古籍材料,而文献中存在俗字的问题,有的俗字与另一个词的写法刚好同形。明清小说有的“爷爷”的字面来自“爹爹”的俗写;“抖”字一个字形,在不同文本中可能记录的是多个词,必须灵活处理。“纠”“抖”字在具体文献中有不同的字词对应关系,从中可看出古籍文献字用的复杂情况。

Studying the history of Chinese language requires ancient book materials,and there are demotic characters in the literature.Some demotic characters are written in the same shape as another word.Some forms of Chinese character for“yeye”(翁)in novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties come from the demotic writing of“diedie”(爹爹).The correspondence between the“jiu”(纠)and“dou”(抖)in specific documents is explained.It can be seen from this that the characters used in ancient literature are complex.