"The ‘Graphic Design’ for 旅 ‘Troops’ and 車 ‘Chariot’ in Oracle-Bone and Bronze Inscriptions"
Résumé
This paper argues that there were in the minds of the creators of Chinese characters what we refer to as “graphic designs” (abbreviated as “GD”—and for all the other acronyms used hereinafter, see “Symbols and Abbreviations of the Frequently Used Terms and the Authors’ Names” at the end of the paper). The GD is generally inseparable from the underlying lexeme, and this paper is a case study of the two, and other related, words, together with their graphic representations in particular reference to (pre-)Old Chinese.
本文提出造字之初造字者已有所謂“（文字）構形設計”（即 "graphic design"，以下簡稱為 "GD"，文中所用英文縮寫皆見文末“Symbols and Abbreviations of the Frequently Used Terms and the Authors’ Names” 附表）的考慮。而這種“GD”基本上是與原本的詞位不可分割的。本文將以（早期）上古漢語中“旅”與“車”兩詞為例探討兩者及與其相關諸詞的文字構形問題。