Shuowen Jiezi is the first Chinese dictionary arranged by radicals. The original book was written in the 12th year of Han Yongyuan (100) to the first year of Andy Jianguang (12 1), but it was lost because of its long history.
In the third year of Emperor Yongxi of Song Taizong, Song Taizong ordered Xu Xuan, Zhu Zhongzheng, Ge Tuan, Wang Weigong and other schools to publish Shuo Wen Jie Zi, which was divided into 30 volumes and distributed in hard copy. Later generations studied Shuowen according to this version. For example, the annotated edition of Duan Yucai in Qing Dynasty was annotated with this edition.
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Shuo Wen Jie Zi consists of fifteen volumes, taking Xiao Zhuan as the research object, and referring to ancient Chinese and essays other than Xiao Zhuan, among which one to fourteen volumes are written descriptions and fifteen volumes are narrative titles. Each volume is divided into two parts, which is actually thirty volumes. * * * has 9353 prefixes, 1 163 repetitions (ancient Chinese, variant characters, etc. ). The prefix is mainly Xiao Zhuan, which includes both ancient Chinese and variant characters. ?
Shuowen Jiezi is the first radical of Chinese characters, and the full text has 540 branches, starting with the "I" part and ending with the "Hai" part. The prefix of the same word is radical and marked "All belong to a certain". The text focuses on the analysis of glyphs, and Shuowen is mainly "text" (mainly single).
"Interpretation" focuses on the interpretation of the meaning of words, and the whole book takes "words" (mainly combinations) as the object of interpretation. Through the analysis of glyphs, the nature and types of characters are affirmed, and the three elements of meaning, shape and sound of characters and their close relationship are explained. The order of explanation is to explain the meaning of each word first, then explain the form, and then explain the pronunciation. The book takes "Six Books" as an example to unify the book.