고문자 書寫元素의 系統적 발전 방향에 대한 小考

Abstract

Using Chinese characters as language codes to record Chinese words has created a mature character system by gradually repeating development. From the aspect of narrative, Chinese characters has completed a basic ’number of strokes’of Clerical Script through a systematic development process of transcription elements in the stage of old characters. The systematic development of an old character transcription element consisted largely of two directions. One is the substantial change of the old character transcription element. It is a transitional process in which the transcription element, which contains hieroglyphics, becomes a line for composing characters by escaping from hieroglyphics. The other is a categorization process of the transcription element in old characters. Through the categorization of the transcription element, every ’line’ that is used in a character shape was induced to a basic type of nine lines in Small Seal Script of Shuowen. Considering the development direction of these two old character transcription elements, this is an important basis to understand the foundation of Libian and its development direction.