用英文讲解汉字的结构和流变
冯志伟
应外研社之约，我和杭师大詹宏伟副教授将用英文写一本解释汉字的结构与流变的书。全书的构架如下：
书名： Chinese Characters -- Its Evolution and Structure
简介
In this book the author describes the origin of Chinese characters, the evolution of the written characters form, the pictographs, the indicative characters, the ideographs, the signific-phonetic characters, the mutually defining characters, the phonetic loan characters, the arrangement and simplification of Chinese characters, the components of Chinese characters, the form system types of components of Chinese characters, the strokes of Chinese characters, the rules of stroke order, the writing method of Chinese characters and the orthography of Chinese characters.
This is an introduction reading book for teachers and students who are studying or will study Chinese characters.
Chinese Characters -- Its Evolution and Structure
Chap. 1 Origin of Chinese Characters
1.1 discovery of pottery inscriptions in China
1.2 Inferring of Chinese Characters Origin
Chap. 2 Evolution of Form of the Written Characters
2.1 oracle scripts (jiaguwen)
2.2 bronze scripts (jinwen)
2.3 great seal scripts (dazhuan)
2.4 small seal scripts (xiaozhuan)
2.5 clerk scripts (lishu)
2.6 cursive hand scripts (caoshu)
2.7 regular scripts (kaishu)
2.8 running hand scripts (xingshu)
Chap. 3 Pictographs
3.1 What is the pictographs
3.2 pictographs describing human body
3.3 pictographs describing animal
3.4 pictographs describing plant
3.5 pictographs describing dress and implements
3.6 pictographs describing astronomical and geographical phenomena
Chap. 4 Indicative Characters
4.1 what is the indicative characters
4.2 indicative characters composed by pictograph plus symbol
4.3 indicative characters as the pure symbols
Chap. 5 Ideographs
5.1 what is the ideographs
5.2 ideographs composed by identical elements
5.3 ideographs composed by different elements
Chap. 6 Signific-Phonetic Characters
6.1 what is the signific-phonetic characters
6.2 significant part in the left and phonetic part in the right
6.3 phonetic part in the left and significant part in the right
6.4 significant part on the top and phonetic part on the bottom
6.5 phonetic part on the top and significant part on the bottom
6.6 significant part at outside and phonetic part at inside
6.7 phonetic part at outside and significant at inside
6.8 significant part in a corner
6.9 phonetic part in a corner
6.10 vertical expansion and horizontal expansion of signific-phonetic
characters
6.11 arbitrariness of phonetic part
6.12 contracted significant part and contracted phonetic part
Chap. 7 Mutually Defining Characters
7.1 what is the mutually defining characters
7.2 some typical mutually defining characters
Chap. 8 Phonetic Loan Characters
8.1 what is the phonetic loan characters
8.2 some important phonetic loan characters
Chap. 9 Components of Chinese Characters
9.1 The number of Chinese Characters
9.2 Three levels of modern Chinese characters structure
9.3 Basic Construction Types of Chinese Characters
(1) top-bottom construction
(2) top-middle-bottom construction
(3) left-right construction
(4) left-center-right construction
(5) left-top surrounding construction
(6) right-top surrounding construction
(7) left-bottom surrounding construction
(8) left-top-right surrounding construction
(9) top-left-bottom surrounding construction
(10) left-bottom-right surrounding construction
(11) complete surrounding construction
(12) special construction
9.4 Complex Construction Types of Compound Characters
9.4.1 Complex Characters Including Three Components
9.4.2 Compound Characters including Four Components
9.4.3 Compound Characters Including Five Components
9.4.4 Compound Characters Including Six Components
9.4.5 Compound Characters Including Seven Components
9.4.6 Compound Characters Including Eight Components
9.4.7 Compound Characters Including Nine Components
Chap. 10 Strokes of Chinese Characters
10.1 The Stroke Types of Chinese characters
10.2 Rules of Writing Order of Chinese Characters
10.2.1 Rules of Writing Order of Components in Chinese Characters
Rule 1 first top then bottom (for top-bottom constructions
and top-middle-bottom constructions)
Rule 2 first left then right (for left-right constructions
and left-center-right constructions)
Rule 3 first outside then inside (for left-top surrounding
constructions, right-top surrounding constructions,
left-top-right surrounding construction and left-top-
bottom surrounding constructions)
Rule 4 first inside then outside (for left-bottom constructions
and left-bottom-right constructions)
Rule 5 first surrounding then inside last closing (for complete
surrounding constructions)
10.2.2 Rules of Writing Order of Strokes in Components
Rule 1 first top stroke then bottom stroke
Rule 2 first left stroke then right stroke
Rule 3 first center stroke then side stroke
Rule 4 first outside stroke then inside stroke
Rule 5 first full stroke then odd stroke
Rule 6 first horizontal stroke then vertical stroke
Rule 7 first horizontal stroke then left-falling stroke
Rule 8 first left-falling stroke then right-falling stroke
Rule 9 first left-falling stroke then spot stroke
Rule 10 first upper surrounding stroke then bottom closing stroke
References
本书估计可在2016年出版。
