| Bronzeware scripts have long been an important part in ancient Chinese character study. The shapes and structures of bronzeware scripts provide substantial information of Chinese character denotations. Most research work on bronzeware scripts has been focused on understanding the meaning of individual bronzeware script. In this paper, we group the bronzeware scripts and analyze them with the lexical (semantic) field theory. By building concept structure of all bronzeware scripts collected in "Jin Wen Da Zi Dian" (Dai, Jiaxiang), we can understand better the senses of each script as well as their correlations. Exploration of features of this conceptual network also helps us reveal the true denotation of Chinese characters. |
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