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"Explanation of the Chinese Characters" Author: Duan Yucai Publisher: Zhonghua Book Company
"Explanation of the Chinese Characters" Author: Duan Yucai Publisher: Zhonghua Book Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Since the liberation, Zhonghua Book Company and Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House have successively published the Daxu version and Duan's annotation version of Shuowen Jiezi, which are attached with the "Stroke Index Table", providing readers with two good reading books. However, the basic index is compiled in the order of strokes, and the characters with the same strokes are arranged in the order of the 540 radicals in Shuowen Jiezi, which is still inconvenient for readers to use. For this reason, we have compiled this "Shuowen Jiezi Four-corner Number General Index" (abbreviated as "General Index") to search the two books.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Duan Yucai (1735-1815) was a Qing Dynasty philologist and classicist. His courtesy name was Ruoying, and his pseudonym was Maotang. In his later years, he was also known as Yanbei Jushi, Changtanghu Jushi, and Qiaowu Laoren. He was from Jintan, Jiangsu Province, and was the grandfather of Gong Zizhen. He was a juren in the reign of Emperor Qianlong. He served as the magistrate of Yuping County in Guizhou and Wushan County in Sichuan. He returned home due to illness and lived in Fengqiao, Suzhou, where he studied behind closed doors. He once studied under Dai Zhen and studied philology and phonology. He wrote "Explanation of Shuowen Jiezi", "Table of Six Characters", "Differentiations in Ancient Texts of Shangshu", "Determined Edition of Maoshi Guxunchuan", "Jingyunlou Collection", etc., and made outstanding contributions to China's phonology, philology, philology, and textual criticism.
