Simple Research Of Zhuang-zi Pronunciation And Meaning's Unusual Characters

The Annotation of the Classics( 《经典释文》 ) is the important reference book which to read the ancient book. Zhuang-zi Pronunciation and Meaning (《庄子音义》 ) has the vital significance towards comprehending Zhuang-zi(《庄子》) text completely.Firstly, this article elaborates the Annotation of the Classics edition spread briefly and the content, the quotation of book, the illustration persons and the research tendency of Zhuang-zi Pronunciation and Meaning. Then According to the material handed down from ancient times and the unearthed material, elaborates the change of Zhuang-zi from the pre-Qin to the time of Lu De-ming(陆德明), intends to unfolds the literature foundation which the unusual characters of Zhuang-zi Pronunciation and Meaning appears.Secondly, consults the terminology used to mark unusual characters in Zhuang-zi Pronunciation and Meaning, divides them into two major kinds initially, the objective mark and subjective judge. Through the statistics and the analysis, we can see that the author's objective records are more than the subjective judgment, and the affirmative deductions are more than the denial judgment.Then analyzes the noun and reduplication(叠字) partially and briefly in the unusual characters. The aim is to facilitate the sound, shape, and righteousness relations of the original form of a character(本字) and the unusual characters, including replacement of homonym and approximate sound, replacement of approximate shape, modifications of approximate righteousness. Some belong to the ancient and modern graphs(古今字), the variant character(异体字), borrowed graphs(通假字) and so on. Some original forms of a character and the unusual characters are different in the phonetic symbol or the semantic symbol aspect.The existence of unusual characters increases the diverse reading angle for us to understand Zhuang-zi, and helpful in the multi-angles of grasp of Zhuang-zi.