The Study On The Rightpart Theory

In the thesis, the writer expounds its learning background after introducing the concept of the rightpart theory.The writer holds that the formation of the rightpart theory has been built on the predecessors' research results and has experienced a necessary study period,and the rightpart theory has five research origins.Then,the paper retrospects the three stages the theory has experienced,that is,the stage of elementary formation,the developing stage in the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty , the matured stage in the modern times.After that,the author pays much attention to the many-sided values of the rightpart theory,such as the values on proofreading ancient books, on teaching Chinese characters and ancient chinese,on researching pictophonetic character, on compliling a dictionary.Then,the author makes a summary and a commentary on the achievements of the scholars who study the rightpart theory .Besides , the writer brings up some ideas which may be payed close attention for the oncoming studies.At last,by the help of Shuo Wen Tong Xun Ding Sheng, the writer collects materials and works out some figures on the phenomenon that phonetic part can convey meanings.The author finds that there are about 1/3 pictophonetic characters whose phonetic parts have meanings in Shuo Wen Jie Zi.After analyzing the pictophonetic characters' structure,the writer has another finding that the name of ringtpart theory is not exact,and there are about 60% pictophonetic character whose phonetic part is on right side.