A Research on the Volume 6 of Qunjing Yinbian

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520460
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: University of Toyama
• Principal Investigator: MORIGA Kazue 富山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (60243094)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 經典釋文 / 羣經音辨 / 多音字 / 訓詁

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Jia Changchao賈昌朝’s Qunjing Yinbianqun羣經音辨(QY) explains the relation between pronunciation and meaning of more than 1100 polyphonic characters, and made a tremendous impact on posterity. Jia collected material from Jingdianshiwen經典釋文(JS). QY consists of seven volumes in total. The first five volumes are allotted to faithful explanations of the phonetic notation in JS, and contain all possible alternative pronunciations of 899 characters. The variation of pronunciation resulted from phonetic loan, misuse of graphically similar character, derivation by phonetic change, and so forth. Unlike the previous volumes, Volume six exclusively picks up the pairs of pronunciation variants caused by the word derivation, and does not completely agree with JS.

Free Research Field

中国語学