The Shuowen tongxun dingsheng (Chinese: 說文通訓定聲; pinyin: Shuōwén tōngxùn dìngshēng) is an 18-volume study of the Shuowen Jiezi completed in 1833 by the Qing phonologist Zhu Junsheng (朱駿聲) (1788–1858) and published in 1870. The bulk of the work is a phonetic study in which the 9000 characters of the Shuowen Jiezi and 7000 additional characters are grouped into 1137 series, each sharing a phonetic element. These phonetic series were further grouped into 18 Shijing rhyme groups, based on Duan Yucai's dictum that characters sharing a phonetic element belonged in the same rhyme group. The work thus anticipated the structure of Bernard Karlgren's Grammata Serica Recensa. The work also includes very detailed notes on rhyming, semantics, and interchangeable characters.
References edit
- Boltz, William G. (1993). "Shuo wen chieh tzu 說文解字". In Loewe, Michael (ed.). Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Early China Special Monograph Series. Vol. 2. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China, and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California. pp. 429–442. ISBN 978-1-55729-043-4. p. 439.
- Wilkinson, Endymion (2012). Chinese History: A New Manual. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Vol. 84. Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Institute; Harvard University Asia Center. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8.
- Yong, Heming; Peng, Jing (2008). Chinese Lexicography : A History from 1046 BC to AD 1911: A History from 1046 BC to AD 1911. Oxford University Press. pp. 284–286. ISBN 978-0-19-156167-2.
External links edit
- Shuowen tongxun dingsheng at the Internet Archive
- Shuowen tongxun dingsheng at the Chinese Text Project
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