当中是一个头朝下的人:两条腿朝天张开,身子往下伸,手臂横在下半截。旁边或下面配一只脚。别人朝我走来,我倒转身迎上去。當中是一個頭朝下的人:兩條腿朝天張開,身子往下伸,手臂橫在下半截。旁邊或下面配一隻腳。別人朝我走來,我倒轉身迎上去。In the middle is a person drawn head-downward: the two legs splay up into the air, the body runs down, and the arms cross it low. A foot stands beside or below. Someone is coming toward you, and you turn about and go to meet them.
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
只有倒人和脚两件:倒人在上,脚在下,一列排下来。只有倒人和腳兩件:倒人在上,腳在下,一列排下來。Two parts only, stacked in one column: the inverted figure above, the foot below.
《甲骨文合集》270反 號 · 舊著錄 乙4865反 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 168 · 第 33 形《甲骨文合集》270反 號 · 舊著錄 乙4865反 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 168 · 第 33 形《甲骨文合集》 合270反 · first published as 乙4865反 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 168 · form 33
左边添一道长弯笔,是“彳”,把倒人和脚一起放到路上。左邊添一道長彎筆,是「彳」,把倒人和腳一起放到路上。A long curved stroke is added on the left — the 彳 — setting the figure and the foot together on a road.
《甲骨文合集》4920 號 · 舊著錄 佚766 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 168 · 第 17 形《甲骨文合集》4920 號 · 舊著錄 佚766 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 168 · 第 17 形《甲骨文合集》 合4920 · first published as 佚766 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 168 · form 17
只有“彳”和倒人,脚省去了;倒人画得特别大,腿张得开。只有「彳」和倒人,腳省去了;倒人畫得特別大,腿張得開。Only the 彳 and the inverted figure; the foot is dropped, and the figure is cut large with its legs wide.
《甲骨文合集》8108 號 · 舊著錄 甲1046 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 168 · 第 26 形《甲骨文合集》8108 號 · 舊著錄 甲1046 · 賓組 · 《甲骨文編》字號 168 · 第 26 形《甲骨文合集》 合8108 · first published as 甲1046 · 賓組 diviner group · 《甲骨文編》 headword 168 · form 26
The middle of 逆 is 屰, which is simply 大 — a person standing face-on with arms and legs spread — turned upside down: legs above, head below. Someone walking toward you is, from where you stand, the wrong way up, and the inverted figure is how the carvers wrote “coming head-on”. A 彳, half of the crossroads sign, is set at the side, or a 止, a foot, below, to put the meeting on the road. On the bones 逆 is going out to meet — an envoy on his way in, or a force on its way against you. 說文 glosses it 逆,迎也, “逆 is to meet”, and adds that east of the pass they said 逆 and west of it 迎 for the same act.
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