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The Problem of Unattested Characters in the Shuo wen jie zi

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The problem of unattested characters in the Shuowen jiezi If we retain the basic definition of a dictionary as a reference book that lists meaningful units in order, and gives their meanings, the Shuowen jiezi (100) counts as a proper dictionary. The author, Xu Shen, has provided an original method to organize the entries, and has systematically given a gloss for each of them. The Shuowen jiezi was compiled to help the understanding of the Classics. Xu Shen obviously explained many words one can find in the Classics. But it turns out that, in fact, he has also included many terms unattested elsewhere in the literature. I shall use examples from the horse to show how a dictionary can be extensively collecting terms that as far as we can see in our comprehensive databases were never used in practice. In this presentation, we shall see that these unattested characters should be divided into two types: 1) motivated characters and 2) prescriptive characters.

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hal-04328701 , version 1 (07-12-2023)

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Françoise Bottéro. The Problem of Unattested Characters in the Shuo wen jie zi. 11th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL11), Waltraud PAUL & Joanna Ut-Seong Sio, Jul 2022, Olomouc, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-04328701⟩
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