The Study of Chinese Sound and Meaning is an emergent discipline formed by the convergence of various academic fields such as philology, phonology, exegesis, grammar, and bibliography. This subject is dedicated to exploring the correspondence of sound and meaning of Chinese language throughout history, especially ancient Chinese. Its research encompasses, but is not limited to, the following areas: (1) Theoretical, material, and methodological issues in the Study of Chinese Sound and Meaning; (2) The essential differences and connections between phonetic annotations in Chinese phonosemantic books, rhyme dictionaries, and dictionaries of Chinese characters; (3) The relationships between phonetic annotations and the Chinese character glyphs; (4) Integrated research on phonetics, semantics, and grammar; (5) The systematic evolution and development of the correspondence of Chinese sound and meaning; (6) The compilation and study of Chinese phonosemantic literature, and more. The Study of Chinese Sound and Meaning requires the integrated use of multidisciplinary research tools such as philology, phonology, exegesis, grammar, textual research, digital humanities, etc., and thus has strong interdisciplinary attributes. As a typical interdisciplinary subject, the establishment of the Study of Chinese Sound and Meaning responds to the objective needs of academic development in the new era.

• 黃仁瑄(華中科技大學) | Renxuan HUANG