假借形声略论

假借和形声是汉字发展史上的两个重要阶段,汉字由此获取表音特点.假借是形声的前驱,形声是在假借基础上产生的表词手段.许慎的假借观和我们今天的认识不同.通假并不避免意义关联,古今字通假是古汉语的事实,也是常规.形声字声符寓义、形声字族具有义通关系,这一观念具有很大的理论和应用价值.

On Character-Loaning and Pictophoneticization

Character-loaning and pictophoneticization are major phases in the history of the Chinese language, through which the Chinese characters obtain the sound-indicating feature. Pictophoneticization occurs after the character loaning phase. Xu Shen's viewpoint on character-loaning differs from our present theory. The ancients do not avoid meaning link when they loan a character to express an abstract word. Therefore'in archaic Chinese original character and its bred one are usually interchangeable when expressing the same word. In pictophonetic characters there's one element indicating both sound and meaning. Characters sharing the same sound-element often connect closely in meaning or motivation. It is of great importance to realize this fact of pictophonetic-characters.