一只从兽头上取下来的角:尖在上,两边向下张开,底口是空的。角身中间刻着一道人字形的棱,那是角上一圈一圈的纹路。一隻從獸頭上取下來的角:尖在上,兩邊向下張開,底口是空的。角身中間刻著一道人字形的稜,那是角上一圈一圈的紋路。A horn taken off the animal's head: the point at the top, the two sides opening downward, the base left hollow. Across the middle runs a chevron ridge — the ringed grain that a real horn carries.
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
一道棱,底下两脚向里回勾,角口显得窄。一道稜,底下兩腳向裡回勾,角口顯得窄。One chevron ridge, and the two feet hook inward at the base so the mouth of the horn looks narrow.
《甲骨文合集》671 號 · 舊著錄 乙2048 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 573 · 第 01 形《甲骨文合集》671 號 · 舊著錄 乙2048 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 573 · 第 01 形《甲骨文合集》 合671 · first published as 乙2048 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 573 · form 01
刻成两道棱,上下叠着;角身张得宽,底下不回勾。刻成兩道稜,上下疊著;角身張得寬,底下不回勾。Two ridges stacked one above the other; the horn spreads wider and the feet do not hook.
《甲骨文合集》6057 號 · 舊著錄 菁1.1 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 573 · 第 09 形《甲骨文合集》6057 號 · 舊著錄 菁1.1 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 573 · 第 09 形《甲骨文合集》 合6057 · first published as 菁1.1 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 573 · form 09
角身收得又瘦又长,棱压在中段偏上,底下的回勾很短。角身收得又瘦又長,稜壓在中段偏上,底下的回勾很短。The horn draws thin and long, the ridge sits high on the shaft, and the hooks at the foot are short.
《甲骨文合集》5495 號 · 舊著錄 粹1244 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 573 · 第 11 形《甲骨文合集》5495 號 · 舊著錄 粹1244 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 573 · 第 11 形《甲骨文合集》 合5495 · first published as 粹1244 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 573 · form 11
角 is a whole horn — not the pair standing on a head but one horn taken off and seen on its own: pointed above, hollow below, with its ridges cut as one or two chevrons. How many chevrons was the carver's choice; both are found. 說文 says “角 is an animal's horn, a picture; 角 resembles 刀 and 魚”, warning that the three look alike in seal script. On the bones there is no mistaking it: only 角 is pointed at the top, open at the foot and ridged across the middle. On the bones the word also names the drinking vessel cut from a horn.
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