| Shuo Wen Jie Zi (shortened as Shuo Wen in the following part) composed by Xu Shen in East Han Dynasty is the first systematic works of philology, which inquires into the meaning of Chinese characters through their shape. Since its accomplishment, much of its content has been researched by the scholars of all ages. It is Xu Kai, the philologist in Tang Dynasty who for the first time arranges and researches Shuo Wen in a comprehensive and systematic way. His book, Shuo Wen Jie Zi Xi Zhuan (well known as Junior Xu Version, shortened as Xi Zhuan in the following part) is the earliest annotated masterpiece.In Xi Zhuan, Xu Kai textually researches the inappropriate parts in Shuo Wen, expounds its style, and further explicates its explanations. He also clarifies the way of using another character with the same pronunciation to replace the original one and the variants of Chinese characters in application both in the past and at present, and distinguishes and analyzes the shape of Chinese characters, and textually researches their meanings. In doing so, he opens many new ways in researching Shuo Wen and makes great contribution to the history of studying it.In his textual research of Shuo Wen, Xu Kai puts forth a noticeable view, in which he changes the Xing Sheng and Yi Sheng characters in Shuo Wen to Hui Yi characters and the Xing Sheng characters to the Yi Sheng characters. The scholars in the past had mentioned this view yet in a simple way. My intention in this dissertation is, on the basis of the former researches, to probe into both the advantages and disadvantages of Xu Kai's works through specifically analyzing the involved characters and hope to offer some efforts for the comprehensive evaluation of Xu Kai's achievement.At the beginning of the dissertation, I conduct a comprehensive statistics concerning 115 characters, in which those, originally Xing Sheng and Yi Sheng characters, are now interpreted as Hui Yi characters by Xu Kai and those, originally Xing Sheng characters, are now Yi Sheng characters. Then the knowledge from Jia Gu Character and Jin Character and the ancient Phonology is employed to induce andevaluate these characters concretely.The dissertation consists of two parts.:Part one is mainly concerned with the rightly interpreted characters conducted by Xu Kai through the aspects of pronunciation, shape, and significance. These characters can be classified into two groups. In the first group, the original Xing Sheng and Yi Sheng characters are interpreted as Hui Yi characters, and in the second group the original Xing Sheng characters as Yi Sheng characters. Actually, Xu Kai's original interpretation in the first group coincides the aim of Chinese character-coining, for these characters rely on the combination of their components to express the meanings. And his interpretation in the second group shows the meaning-expressing function of the pronunciation components of Chinese characters. So Xu Kai's interpretation is positively constructive for it can deepen our recognition of Shuo Wen.Part Two mainly focuses on Xu Kai's wrongly interpreted characters and further analyzes the three reasons resulting in his wrong interpretations. The first reason of his wrong interpretation is that Xu Kai has no idea of the evolution of phonetics and the change of the pronunciation of Xing Sheng character and its pronunciation component. The second reason of his wrong interpretation is that Xu Kai, affected by the meaning-expressing quality of Chinese characters, lays more emphasis on this aspect and then offers some wrong interpretations. And the third reason of his wrong interpretation lies in the fact that Xu Kai, owing to his ignorance of the development of Chinese character, only draws on seal character to analyze the shape of those characters. The wrongly interpreted characters caused by his laying too much emphasis on their meanings amount to a larger part in all the wrong interpretations. And they can be divided into three classes, (1) Xing Sheng character and Yi Sheng character as Hui Yi chara...
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