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REJOINDER TO JONATHAN SMITH, RESEARCH NOTE ON SHUN 舜

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2018

Adam D. Smith
Adam D. Smith*
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Adam D. Smith, 亞當, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected].
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Abstract

In his Research Note, “Shun 舜 and the Interpretation of Early Orthographical Variation,” in this issue of Early China, Jonathan Smith made several claims about the early evolution of the graph 舜, in particular suggesting that it should be identified with the graph lin 粦 that occurs in certain Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. While showing that these claims are ill-supported, I nevertheless concur in the identification with the bronze-inscriptional graph, but show that the word being written is 濬 ~ 浚 “deep, profound” and in no way connected with lin 粦.

提要

Jonathan M. Smith 提出了有關“舜”之古文字寫法的一些觀點，並指出“舜”字與見於西周銅器銘文中過去被釋為“粦”的一個字具有發展演變關係。本文認爲 Jonathan Smith 提出的部分觀點是不正確的，但同時認爲西周金文中所謂“粦”字確實與“舜”字有密切關係，只不過將該字釋為“粦”還不如讀之為“濬 ”或“浚”。

Keywords

ShunpaleographyOld Chinese舜上古音古文字濬浚
Type
Research Notes
Information
Early China , Volume 41 , 2018 , pp. 423 - 433
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Study of Early China and Cambridge University Press 2018 

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Crispin Williams (U. of Kansas) for many helpful and insightful comments to the draft version of this rejoinder.

References

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13. This corrects the reconstruction provided by Baxter and Sagart: 濬 *s-[q]ʷi[n|ŋ]-s “deep” (William Baxter and Laurent Sagart, “Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction, Version 1.1,” [September 20, 2014], http://ocbaxtersagart.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/BaxterSagartOCbyMandarinMC2014-09-20.pdf, 129), and employed by Cook, Constance, in “Sage King Yu 禹 and the Bin Gong xu 豳公盨,” Early China 35 (2013), 91Google Scholar. Some Chinese dictionaries incorrectly assign this word (graph) to the zhen 真 rhyme group (*-in), though clearly, it belongs in the wen 文 group (*-un, *-ən) together with its alternate spelling 浚. See Li, Wang 王力, Wang Li gu Hanyu zidian 王力古漢語字典 (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2000), 641Google Scholar. I notice also that the word 峻 ~ 𡺲 ~ 陖 xùn “high, precipitous” that I reconstructed in my 2017 article was incorrectly written *slun without its qu sheng *-s coda.

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