Research On The Core Meaning Of Chinese Vocabularies In Mu(?) And Cao(?)

The research of the core meaning is a new area in Chinese vocabulary research system.The core meaning,as the name suggests,is the core or the soul of the word,which leads the development of word meaning.Compare to the Semantic Extension of the Verbs in Ancient Chinese,the core meaning analysis is a kind of the static description.Based on the previous research,this paper will concentrate on characters in Mu(?)and Cao(?)part of Hanyudazidian(?????),extract their core meaning and complement the theory.The introduction part reviewed the previous research,which shows that in ancient Chinese lexical semantic study,scholars begin to pay attention to explore the regularities of meaning movements as well as to explain the meaning of a single word.Then talked about the scope of study and research contents,and main research method in finding out the core meaning.The first chapter summarized the features of Chinese characters in Mu(?)and Cao(?).First,they are often mixed with the radical of Zhu(?),He(?),Mai(?),Dou(?),Zhou(?),Shou(?)etc.Second,a substantial part of these words are names of plants,palace,vehicles and appliance,which are formed by their characters and functions in human society,therefore,it is very helpful to understand their naming motivation in investigating human cognition.The second discussed about the situation of ambivalent word,such as homographs,derivatives,and variant forms of the same word.In brief,the main subject of this article is polysemous words.Chapter three discussed the source of the core meaning and its relationship with the original meaning.The core meaning study is quite different with the traditional semantic analysis of cognate words,however,they are highly corrected in some respects.Some source of the core meaning can be traced to the original meaning while others cannot.Generally,there are four types of the core meaning.Chapter four is case studies.The core meaning can play a key role in the analysis of the meaning of ancient Chinese words and educational practice.The aim of this paper is to develop and promote this theory.