《通俗文》性质略论

The Kind of Tong Su Wen

《通俗文》是东汉末服虔所撰中国古代第一部俗语词辞书,在小学史与辞书史上具有重要地位与价值然而由于这部书早已亡佚,有关研究一直不够深入,对此书性质的认识还存在一些分歧文章通过将《通俗文》的佚文与《说文》《方言》《玉篇》《正续一切经音义》《现代汉语词典》《汉语大词典》等古今辞书进行比较, 发现这部书所收语词不是方言, 而是民族共同语(通语)?不是专门收新字新词或冷僻俗字,而是东汉末正在使用的常用字词,其中有源自古汉语者,有源自方言者,当然更有大量的新字新词?因此认为《通俗文》的性质与《现代汉语词典》相类似。

Tong Su Wen is the first colloquialisms dictionary,written by Fuqian in Dong Han Dynasty . The dictionary have been lost for a long time. So the study about it is not very well.The scholars are not identical in the kind ofTong Su Wen .From comparedTong Su Wen withShuo Wen, Fang Yan, Zheng Xu Yi Qie Jing YinYi, Modern Chinese Dictionary, The great Chinese Dictionary, etc, We find that the words which Tong Su Wen collect have two character : Synchronism and Tong Yu Xing .