The Inheritance And Innovation Of The Assorting Of The Variant Forms Of Chinese Characters Of Standard Chinese Characters Table

The "Standard Chinese Characters Table" is a standard characters table which is formulated to follow the law of the People’s Republic state general language and adapt to the needs of the national informatization and contemporary language life. As an important part of the formulation of the "Standard Chinese Characters Table", the assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters has also made new achievements with the completion of the "Standard Chinese Characters Table". However, there is still no systematic summarization about its inheritance and innovation from the previous assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters.This paper is based on the "Standard Chinese Characters Table"(according to the draft of seeking views temporarily) to make comparison among the assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters of the "Standard Chinese Characters Table", the first batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters and the following formulation, promulgation and adjustment of the standards of variant forms of Chinese characters, including the first batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters, the second batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters (first draft), the assorting table of variant forms of Chinese characters (revised version), the second tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters (draft of seeking views), the adjustments of the variant forms groups of Chinese characters by "Simplified General Table","Modern Chinese common words table","Language Code Handbook", relevant national documents and instructions and so on.By way of the quantitative analysis of the relevant characters table and the objective description of the relevant adjustments, we try to comb the specific conditions and experiences of the assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters of each stage from the principles, methods, copes of the assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters, summarize the inheritance and innovation of the "Standard Chinese Characters Table" from the previous assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters, provide some reference for the future standard work of the Chinese characters.This paper consists four parts: The first part:Introduction. This part simply introduces the definition of variant forms of Chinese characters, the overview of the research and assorting of variant forms of Chinese characters, the contents and methods of this subject and so on.The second part:Assorting of variant forms of Chinese characters before Standard Chinese Characters Table. This part adopts the methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis, diachronic comparison, objective description, generalization and summarization, comb the first batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters and the following character tables and standards of variant forms of Chinese characters. Quantitative analysis adopts the methods of dividing the selected characters and their variant forms into different groups and determining their sequences in the first batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters(810jumpbogroups,1055groups), the second batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters (first draft;598jumpbogroups,766groups), the assorting table of variant forms of Chinese characters (revised version;1263jumpbogroups,1943groups), the second tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters (draft of seeking views;1033jumpbogroups,1371groups). According to the pronunciations and meanings in the Chinese Dictionary (the second version), we investigate all the5135groups completely, put different types of variant forms into different qualitative classifications and add up to the statistical data in different diagrams, descript the actual situations of the assorting of variant forms of Chinese characters in each character table. Then we compare and summarize the assorting of variant forms of Chinese characters in the relevant character tables and standards according to the time sequence, interpret the principles, methods, copes of the assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters since the publication of the first batch of tabulated variant forms of Chinese characters according to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of each character table and standard.The third part:The assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters of Standard Chinese Characters Table. This part descripts objectively and analizes qualitatively the variant forms of Chinese characters in "Standard Chinese Characters Table", summarizes its inheritance and innovation in principles, methods, copes of the assorting of the variant forms of Chinese characters and the enlightenment to characters standardize work.The fourth part:Conclusion. This part summarizes the whole paper and points out the deficiency of the research work.