它画的是什么它畫的是什麼What it draws
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.
字形解说字形解說The character explained
上面是“又”,一只手;下面是“象”,认得出长鼻、方头和腿。手抓着象鼻,是牵象干活。商代的中原还有象,卜辞里也问过猎象,用象来负重并不离奇。手使唤一头大牲口,引申出“做事”这个最普通的意思,卜辞里“为”就是做:为某事、为某人。《说文》把“为”讲成“母猴也”,说上面的爪是猴爪,那是许慎见不到甲骨,就小篆的形状猜的,与字形不合。
上面是「又」,一隻手;下面是「象」,認得出長鼻、方頭和腿。手抓著象鼻,是牽象幹活。商代的中原還有象,卜辭裡也問過獵象,用象來負重並不離奇。手使喚一頭大牲口,引申出「做事」這個最普通的意思,卜辭裡「為」就是做:為某事、為某人。《說文》把「為」講成「母猴也」,說上面的爪是猴爪,那是許慎見不到甲骨,就小篆的形狀猜的,與字形不合。
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.