右上角是一只手,手指张开朝下;手底下接着一条长鼻子,鼻子卷起来,连着一个方头和两条腿。手牵着象鼻,把象使唤起来。右上角是一隻手,手指張開朝下;手底下接著一條長鼻子,鼻子捲起來,連著一個方頭和兩條腿。手牽著象鼻,把象使喚起來。A hand at the upper right, fingers spread and turned down; below it a long trunk curling up to meet it, joined to a squared head and two legs. A hand on an elephant's trunk, putting the animal to work.
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
手在右上,象鼻高高卷起来接住它;方头带眼,下面两条腿分开。手在右上,象鼻高高捲起來接住它;方頭帶眼,下面兩條腿分開。The hand sits upper right and the trunk curls high to meet it; the squared head carries its eye, and two legs part below.
《甲骨文合集》15188 號 · 舊著錄 後2.10.12 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 336 · 第 09 形《甲骨文合集》15188 號 · 舊著錄 後2.10.12 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 336 · 第 09 形《甲骨文合集》 合15188 · first published as 後2.10.12 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 336 · form 09
刻得又细又省:手只剩两道叉笔,象身缩成一条竖线,腿是两道短撇。刻得又細又省:手只剩兩道叉筆,象身縮成一條豎線,腿是兩道短撇。Cut thin and sparing: the hand is down to two forked strokes, the body to a single upright, and the legs to two short slants.
《甲骨文合集》5410 號 · 舊著錄 存742 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 336 · 第 22 形《甲骨文合集》5410 號 · 舊著錄 存742 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 336 · 第 22 形《甲骨文合集》 合5410 · first published as 存742 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 336 · form 22
象身向左斜,两条腿张得很开;手放得更高,鼻子拉得更长。象身向左斜,兩條腿張得很開;手放得更高,鼻子拉得更長。The body leans left and the legs spread wide; the hand is set higher and the trunk is drawn out longer.
《甲骨文合集》2953 號 · 舊著錄 乙2307 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 336 · 第 02 形《甲骨文合集》2953 號 · 舊著錄 乙2307 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 336 · 第 02 形《甲骨文合集》 合2953 · first published as 乙2307 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 336 · form 02
Above is 又, a hand; below is 象, the elephant, still showing its trunk, its squared head and its legs. The hand has hold of the trunk: the animal is being led to work. There were still elephants in the Shang heartland — the divinations ask about hunting them — and putting one to carrying is no stretch. From a hand setting a great beast to a task comes the plainest of meanings, “to do”, and that is how the bones use 為: to do a thing, to do it for someone. 說文 explains 為 as 母猴也, “a female monkey”, taking the claw above for a monkey's; Xu Shen had no bones to look at and was guessing from the seal shape, and the guess does not fit the graph.
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