Trail Argumentation on the Graphic Etymology of the Graph Zhuo ( 丵 ) in Shuo Wen (《说文》)

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Trail Argumentation on the Graphic Etymology of the Graph Zhuo ( 丵 ) in Shuo Wen (《说文》)

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Zhuo ( 丵 ) was glossed as tussocky grass in Shuo Wen (《说文》) because the graph looks like grass growing up parallel to compete the height, but this explanation didn’t convince the majority of modern paleographers. There are many graphs of the Warring State containing the graph 丵 , and scholars deciphered them preferentially as the meaning of cha ( 察 ), qie ( 窃 ), qian ( 浅 ), zhi ( 质 ), etc., while the graph seems that it didn’t exist. This paper agrees that there are two pronunciations in Oracle Bone Inscriptions for 璞 interpreted by Tang Lan, pu ( 璞 ) and jian ( 翦 ),thus the constituent

of it also has two pronunciations, zao ( 凿 ) and chan ( 铲 ).While

being added dots would be 丵 , and

should be song ( 送 ) in Volume Two ,Tsinghua Bamboo Slips《清华·贰》, this indicates the 丵 of

could only be the phonetic constituent, which should be read as the combination of the initial of 士 and the final of 角 , so 菆丛 should be read as zouzhong ( 诹众 ), and 丵本 should be read as zhongben ( 重本 ) on Zuozhong Qiju ( 左冢漆梮 ).

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zhuo ( 丵 ) zao ( 凿 ) chan ( 铲 ) chan ( 刬 ) zouzhong ( 刬 ) zhongben ( 重本 )

Published: 26 July 2019

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Trail Argumentation on the Graphic Etymology of the Graph Zhuo ( 丵 ) in Shuo Wen (《说文》)

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