中国文字之张氏象形研究

The Study of Chang’s Pictograph in Chinese Character

文字之笔划乃可拆卸与组合,就像系统与其子系统一般;对系统而言其各子系统是可以拆卸与组合,因而文字就是一系统(字的系统)。只要是系统,不管其是自动式亦或是被动式,皆有其运作方式与目的。是故,文字存在之目的就是帮助“人”或“智慧生命”亦或“机器”去了解其代表之信息意涵。文字既是系统那就有其创作之依循法则,众所皆知中国文字“现今字体”便是依循“六书”而建立,其中有一法则为“象形”。而本文所欲探讨之“张氏象形文字”主要透过六种法则,将现今字体变成另一种新形态之象形字体,亦即以一种新象形形式表现,这是本文核心意涵之所在。因第一作者姓“张”之故,遂将此种新象形字体命名为“张氏象形文字”,而此六种法则名之为“张氏象形六法”。此六种法则简述如下:法则1乃特征选取、法则2是特征投影与描绘、法则3为想象、法则4乃字体逆推衍、法则5为融合而法则6则称取舍与补偿。藉此六种法则并针对现今中国文字来创建象形文字。是以,“张氏象形文字”与传统六书之象形乃多所差异;简言之:“一个是包含六书意涵之象形,而另一个则仅是六书之一的象形”。端此,本文之目的乃藉由张氏象形文字让大众了解中国文字之内涵,并具仓颉造字之“创作活力”,是所至盼。

The strokes of Chinese character can be disassembled and combined, just like a system and its subsystems. For the system, its subsystems can be disassembled and combined, so the Chinese character is a system (system of Chinese characters). As long as it is a system, whether it is an automatic or a passive system, it has its own operation mode and purpose. Therefore, the objective of Chinese character’s existence is to help “people” or “intelligent life” or “machines” understand the information they represent. Since Chinese character is a system, there are rules for its creation. Most of people know that Chinese characters with their present fonts are built in accordance with “Six Methods”, and one of them is “Pictogram”. In this article, the so-called “Chang’s Pictograph” is to transform the current Chinese character’s font into a new pictographic font by using six rules (These rules are the kernel of this article). We named this new pictographic font as “Chang’s Pictograph” since the first author’s surname is “Chang”. And these six rules are named as “Six Rules of Chang’s Pictograph”. The six rules are briefly described as follows: Rule 1 is feature selection, Rule 2 is feature projection and depiction, Rule 3 is imagination, Rule 4 is fonts' reverse derivation, Rule 5 is fusion and Rule 6 is called selection and compensation. With respect to current Chinese characters, the new pictographic is created by using the six rules. Therefore, the “Chang’s Pictograph” is different from the traditional pictogram of the Six Methods. In short: “One is a pictograph containing the meaning of Six Methods, and the other is merely a pictogram with one of the Six Methods.” This difference is big. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to let the people understand the connotation of Chinese characters through Chang’s Pictograph, and to have the “creative vitality” of Cangjie’s writing. This is our sincere hope.