戰國時期 秦系文字의 筆劃 및 偏旁의 繁化에 대한 考察

Abstract

In the process of development for Chinese characters, despite of the fact that it has been in the pursuit of reducing original strokes and radicals for the sake of conciseness and convenience, it also has reflected its complexity and thrive to suit the needs of development in actual use. The multiplications of Chinese characters are meant to add a number of new parts or radicals to the original forms of characters, however, the sounds and the meaning of the characters remain the same, therefore sometimes the multiplications can be "optional". Besides the basic form of Chinese characters in Warring States period, they are mostly decorative pens to play the role of flourishing decorations as well as beautification, which has not much been related with the original forms regardless of the basic formations. The so-called decoration pens and decoration strokes are additional parts; whereas, the multiplications , that is, from conciseness to complications, is of the same importance as the simplifications of Chinese characters in their progression history,that is to say, radicals or strokes are added to the original characters(including pictophonetic characters as well as sound symbols) to increase strokes based on the basic form, and this kind of multiplication phenomenon has been referred to as re-creating of characters from the original ones. It can be seen that in Chinese characters, the pictophonetic characters, ancient and contemporary characters, differentiated and accumulated characters are all consequences of the multiplications of Chinese characters.