《说文》叠体字的构形与意象思维

On the Form and Imagery Thinking of Overlapped Characters in Origin of Chinese Characters

叠体字是汉字中特殊的构字形式。最早系统整理和直接训释叠体字的是东汉的许慎。《说文》的小篆叠体字组合方式齐全,具有明显的强化信息的造意功能,显示出意象性、整合性的构形思维特征。叠体字是汉字孳乳初级阶段的产物,是汉字由表形阶段向表意阶段发展的“速生体”;由于其本身存在表意不清、书写繁复等先天不足的弱点,因此最终逐步被音义兼表的形声字所取代。

As a special word-building style, overlapped characters were firstly sorted out and explained by Xu Shen(许慎) of the Han Dynasty(汉). The ways of building these characters are complete which have obvious ideographic functions of strengthened information. And they are characterized by the nature of imagination, and perfect comformity. Overlapped characters are the products of the elementary stage of Chinese character development and the 'quick growing form' from the pictographic stage to the ideographic stage. They are finally substituted by pictographic characters because of their ambiguous meaning, complicated writing.