一根长杆竖着，两道短横从它身上伸出来，一上一下；横的另一头有的收成小短钩，有的接到一根短杆上。整个字又高又窄，像把一副床架竖起来靠着看——长杆是床沿，两道横是撑着的腿。一根長桿豎著，兩道短橫從它身上伸出來，一上一下；橫的另一頭有的收成小短鉤，有的接到一根短桿上。整個字又高又窄，像把一副床架豎起來靠著看——長桿是床沿，兩道橫是撐著的腿。One long pole stands upright, with two short bars reaching out from it, one high and one low; the far end of each bar either finishes in a small hook or runs into a shorter pole. The whole graph is tall and narrow, like a bed frame stood on end against a wall — the long pole is the bed's edge and the two bars are the legs holding it up.
甲骨文异体甲骨文異體Oracle-bone variants
商代不同时期、不同刻手的写法并不相同。下面每一种写法都依据一片具体的甲骨。商代不同時期、不同刻手的寫法並不相同。下面每一種寫法都依據一片具體的甲骨。Scribes of different periods wrote the same character differently. Each form below follows one specific inscription.
常见写法常見寫法Most common form
长杆一根，两道短横伸出后各折下一小段，没有第二根柱。長桿一根，兩道短橫伸出後各折下一小段，沒有第二根柱。One long pole; each short bar turns down a little at its far end, and there is no second post.
《甲骨文合集》43 號 · 舊著錄 前7.3.1 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 857 · 第 03 形《甲骨文合集》43 號 · 舊著錄 前7.3.1 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 857 · 第 03 形《甲骨文合集》 合43 · first published as 前7.3.1 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 857 · form 03
两根柱都画全，两道横把它们连成一架梯子。兩根柱都畫全，兩道橫把它們連成一架梯子。Both posts are drawn in full and the two bars join them into a ladder.
《甲骨文合集》14576 號 · 舊著錄 乙2778 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 857 · 第 05 形《甲骨文合集》14576 號 · 舊著錄 乙2778 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 857 · 第 05 形《甲骨文合集》 合14576 · first published as 乙2778 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 857 · form 05
横档拉得长，另一头的柱只画中间一截，上下都不到头。橫檔拉得長，另一頭的柱只畫中間一截，上下都不到頭。The bars reach out further, and the far post is drawn only through the middle, stopping short at both ends.
《甲骨文合集》32982 號 · 舊著錄 掇2.132 · 歷組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 857 · 第 09 形《甲骨文合集》32982 號 · 舊著錄 掇2.132 · 歷組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 857 · 第 09 形《甲骨文合集》 合32982 · first published as 掇2.132 · 歷組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 857 · form 09
The 小學堂 seal database has no headword for 爿: it does not stand alone in 說文 but appears only inside other characters — 疒, at glyph_sick_001 in this library, which draws a person lying on a bed. Read backwards, 爿 is that bed, drawn from the side and set upright. The other reading takes it for a split plank: 木 cut down the middle gives 片 on the right and 爿 on the left. Either will carry the shape, so we grade it probable. Watch out here: this chapter holds two more two-post, two-bar frames — 凡 at glyph_raft_001 and 宁 at glyph_store_001. Tell them apart by proportion: 凡's posts splay outward at the top; 宁 is drawn wide and square with its posts well apart; 爿 is tall and narrow, its bars short and one long pole running the whole height.
所有字形均为本项目按所引字形原创绘制的示意图，不是拓片复制品。所有字形均為本專案按所引字形原創繪製的示意圖，不是拓片複製品。Every drawing is an original schematic illustration made after the cited form. None of them is a reproduction of a rubbing.小學堂甲骨文資料庫 · 中央研究院
