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 Chinese Symbol: 01/16/2005 - 01/22/2005
The Shuowen Jiezi is best consulted in one of its annotated editions, which include materials drawn from the later philological tradition.
The two most important are Shuowen Jiezi Gulin (A Forest of Glosses on the Shuowen Jiezi) compiled by Ding Fubao and Shuowen Jiezi Zu (Commentary to the Shuowen Jiezi) compiled by Duan Yucai.
Shuowen Jiezi mainly contained characters of Xiaozhuan (lesser seal script) and analyzed structures of characters according to different character components.
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This is the character for drain as given in Shuowen.
Shuowen is an abbreviation for ShuoWen JieZi, which was originally written between 100 AD and 121 AD by Xu Shen.
The gully character is shown with it's ancient form, as given in seal script form under Shuowen also.
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 The Evolution of Chinese Characters
The phonetics in "Shuowen Jiezi" are those that were in regular use during the Zhou, only their technical execution was abbreviated, simplified, and normalized through the "Small Seal" reform (Karlgren, 1936).
The "Sall Seal" characters in "Shuowen", resulting from the Qin Reform, were necessarily a normalization of th earlier graphs.
Pertaining to Chinese orthography, the character analysis portion of this research is based mainly upon Weiger's development of the formal elements of the Chinese characters (1965), which in turn had its foundation in "Shuowen".
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 DINSG1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
If it was not the first dictionary of Chinese, Xu Shen's 'Shuowen Jiezi' was the first to have provided a standardized collection of script forms, the 'small seal' characters adopted by the unifying First Emperor.
Even the 'Shuowen,' however, included some earlier 'great seal' forms (also known as 'zhouwen') and scholars down the ages went on to add further supplements, notably, Wu Dacheng who produced a 'Shuowen Gu Zhou Bu' in 1883.
This book is subsequent to that supplement; it is an important early Republican study of pre-Qin philology, in the fine lithography of the period.
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 Chinese Literature - Shuowen jiezi 說旇解字 (www.chinaknowledge.de)
During Later Han Dynasty, when orthodox Confucianism was already established as the leading school of state thinking and interpreting the traditional classical writings, it was necessary to make exact definitions for terms occurring in the writings of old times.
Many of these 540 classifiers are viewed as part of other groups today (the Shuowen lists 箕 as a classifier, today it is subsumed under bamboo 竹).
The main commentator of the Shuowen is Xu Xuan 徐鉉 (d.
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 Research Tools for Chinese Studies - 2. Dictionaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
[See W 65-67; TB 139-40; L 429-42.] The Shuowen jiezi is best consulted in one of its annotated editions, which include materials drawn from the later philological tradition.
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Shuowen jiezi zhu »¡¤å¸Ñ¦rª` [Commentary to the Shuowen jiezi].
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 Chinese Characters
While Chinese characters are often thought of as overly complex, in fact they are all derived from a couple hundred simple pictographs and ideographs in ways that are usually quite logical and easy to remember.
These wen (or zigen) are the true radicals of Chinese as identified by Xu Shen in his classic Shuowen Jiezi nearly 2000 years ago.
This web site and its associated printed dictionary present a series of zipu or "character genealogies" which show graphically the close interconnections between over 4000 characters according to the Shuowen Jiezi and subsequent research by traditional etymologists.
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 Shuowen jiezi 說文解字 - Wiki Tai Chi
Wiki Tai Chi contributors, ‘Shuowen jiezi 說文解字’, Wiki Tai Chi, 25 September 2006, 22:48 CEST, [accessed 19 January 2007]
Wiki Tai Chi contributors, “Shuowen jiezi 說文解字,” Wiki Tai Chi, http://wiki.taijiquan.info/doku.php?id=wiki:shuowenandrev=1159217328 (accessed January 19, 2007).
Shuowen jiezi 說文解字, http://wiki.taijiquan.info/doku.php?id=wiki:shuowenandrev=1159217328 (last visited January 19, 2007).
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 Amazon.com: "jiezi zhu": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Shuowen jiezi zhu (Annotated etymological dictionary of Chinese).
Shuowen jiezi zhu (Commentary to the Elucidations of the Signs and Explications of the Graphs), 5B.11a.
The character for Heaven (tiati) is traditionally defined as the `Supreme Ultimate (zhigao wushang)' (Shuou,crr Jiezi Zhu, 1981: r).
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 Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
The translation of the oracle bone script was made easier by the survival of an early dictionary, Xu Shen's Shuowen jiezi (c.
At the time Xu Shen was writing, Chinese characters were written in a style that is still in use today, so his dictionary formed a bridge between the ancient past and the present.
In his preface to the Shuowen jiezi, Xu Shen described the invention of the Chinese script: "The Yellow Emperor's Court Recorder, Cang Jie, looked down and saw the marks left by the tracks of birds and animals.
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 Asian Art - E&J Frankel, New York
The name jue is derived from the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) dictionary Shuowen and is loosely translated as “goblet”.
Judging from the stemmed knobs at the lip, it may have been used to heat ritual wine, the knobs being used to remove the hot vessel from over the fire using leather thongs.
In some examples, there are traces of ashes on the tripod indicating its use in fire.
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 Pleasure and the Hermeneutics of Drunkeness
  The Shuowen jiezi defines zui as “not approaching disorder” bu zhiyu luan ye.
  Like the earliest commentaries to the poem, the Shuowen was compiled centuries after the text was originally composed.
  The Shuowen definition of zui not approaching disorder does not fit here unless there is a perceived state of intoxication somewhere between drunkeness and drunkeness to the point of disorderly conduct.
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 Character dictionaries
The internationally most popular electronic dictionary that can be used as a character dictionary is WWJDIC, which is maintained by Jim Breen of Monash University in Australia and is available for free on the Internet.
Each of these 540 groups begins with a character that, in the opinion of Xu Shen, is contained in the other characters of the group and gives them meaning.
Some of these radicals did not serve as radicals in the Shuowen; that is, the 214 radicals are not simply a subset of the 540 classical radicals of the Shuowen.
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 Cleansing the heart
Shuowen Jiezi was the earliest etymological dictionary of the Chinese language, written by Xushen (58-147 CE).
Duan Yuzai[xxxii] (d.1750 CE), a Qing Dynasty scholar of the Qianlong Emperor's court, wrote the Shuowen Jiezizhu, Annotated Etymologies of Literature and Chinese Characters, a commentary to the Shuowen Jiezi.
Evaluations of quality and authenticity of their conclusions and foci of that scholarship must be reinterpreted in that light.
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 Chinese Dialects
This course will use the diversity of the modern Chinese dialects as a lens through which to view and understand the diversity of the Chinese languages in earlier times.
In addition to modern description and methodology, the course will introduce the fundamentals of traditional Chinese descriptive methods as reflected in early texts, including the Shuowen jiezi, rhyme books, and rhyme tables.
Students will learn how the diverse historical forms of Chinese that underlie these texts are, or are not, reflected in the present day Chinese languages.
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 Chinese Literature - Kangxi zidian 康熙字典 (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Classifier "wood", 4 additional strokes: "East" According to the dictionaries Tangyun and Zhengyun, read like D- and -ONG (dong), according to the Jiyun and Yunhui, read like D- and -ONG (dong) [...] The Shuowen jiezi writes, "East" dong is "moving" dong, the moving of the sun's breath that rises in spring.
The Canon of Yao in the Book of Documents states: "He made a tour of inspection eastwards".
Note: The Shuowen jiezi takes "East" as an own classifier; here, it belongs to the classifier "Wood".
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 Asian Dragon Figurines
It can fly among the clouds or hide in water (according to the Guanzi).
It can form clouds, can turn into water or fire, can become invisible or glow in the dark (according to the Shuowen Jiezi).
The first legendary emperor Huang Di was said to have been immortalized into a dragon that resembled his emblem, and ascended to Heaven.
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 The Chinese names of the four directions. - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
The glosses in the Shuowen jiezi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (ca.
The Shuowen relates [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] *tuwng to [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] *duwngX 'move' and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] *pok 'north' to [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] *pojH 'the back' respectively.
Especially in the last term, one recognizes a close analog of the designation of the west in Irish, Church Slavonic, and Sanskrit, which in these languages is derived from a word meaning "behind" (Irish iarthar 'west'
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 e-Library: Language dictionary: Chinese
Offers strokes and radical methods to find the needed Chinese characters with explanations from an ancient Chinese dictionary called Shuowen Jiezi.
A Chinese dictionary providing different definitions, including Chinese and English definitions, definitions in Kangxi Zidian, and definitions in Shuowen Jiezi.
It also supplies pronunciation, usage examples, stroke, part of speech, and related terms in every entry.
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 A Study of Chinese Writing Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Judging by the extent to which these shell-and-bone logographs are already conventionalized, it is reasonable to infer that true writing emerged considerably earlier, although we do knot know exactly when (Wang, 1981).
The earliest dictionary is Shuowen Jiezi (121 A.D.), with a compilation of 9,353 logographs.
Its author, Xu Shen, applied two principles of organization: One divided the logographs into six categories according to the way they were formed.
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 Department of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong
A study of key texts in classical Chinese literature.
An in-depth study of Shuowen jiezi, an ancient Chinese lexicon.
An examination of the ways of applying knowledge on grammar and rhetoric in teaching.
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 Amazon.com: "Duan Yucai": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
of natural things: `the images in the sky', `the patterns on the earth', and `the patterns of birds and beasts' (Duan Yucai: Shuowen jiezi zhu (A Commentary on Explaining Simple Graphs and Analysing Compound Characters), Hangzhou: Zhejiang Guji Chubanshe, 1998, p.753).
Key Phrases in this book: Old Testament, New York, Book of Changes, Katharine Dell, Wisdom of Solomon, Doctrine of the Mean, revering tradition, wisdom transmission, king paradigm, wisdom thinking, wisdom texts, accordance with the rites (See more)
(Sishu jizhu, 29) In his commentary to the Shuowen jiezi (Explanations of Simple and Complex Graphs), Duan Yucai (1735-1815)...
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