Chinese ancient wordbook of standard characters is a type of character book that establishes a standard style for the writing of Chinese characters. This article selects seven types of character books, including the Tang Dynasty’s Ganlu Zishu, Wujing Wenzi, Xinjia Jiujing Ziyang, the Song Dynasty’s Fugu Bian, the Yuan Dynasty’s Zi Jian, the Ming Dynasty’s Sushu Kanwu, and the Qing Dynasty’s Zengguang Zixue Juyu. Through a review and analysis of their research status, it is determined that the style of character books is mainly explored from three aspects: character collection, bibliography, and arrangement style. Chinese ancient wordbook of standard characters has the characteristics of small volume and stable quantity in the collection of characters. In terms of typography, the form of the prefix has gone through a process of typography, from typography to typography, and gradually fixed to typography; Except for the “Fugu Bian”, all fonts are in regular script and stand out; Except for the “Ganlu Zishu”, all prefix categories are listed in regular script. In terms of arrangement style, the Ganlu Zishu has had a profound impact on future generations of character books. More character books use phonetic order, and are all based on four tones, with rhyme as the main focus. The use of radical method in the “Wujing Wenzi” and “Xinjia Jiujing Ziyang” is different from the radical in the “Shuowen Jiezi” in terms of the number, form, and order of radicals, mainly reflecting the trend of radical function transformation from structure to character inspection.
본문은 『小學文獻序跋彙編』에 수록된 역대 소학 관련서의 서와 발 중 학자들의 “정자”와 관련된 이론적 견해를 발췌하여 학술사의 관점에서 정자관을 정리하고, 역대 학자들의 정자관을 객관적으로 평가하였다. 또한, 오늘날 진행 중인 한자의 표준화 작업이 지니는 실제적 의미도 고찰해 보았다.
역대 학자들의 정자관은 각각 차이점이 존재하지만, 본 연구를 통해 과학적 정자관은 한자 발전의 객관적 법칙을 따르고, 한자의 구성 원리에 맞는 정자 표준을 지키고 있다는 사실을 알게 되었다. 우리는 이러한 역사적 사실을 토대로 역대 학자들의 과학적 정자 방법 및 경험을 수용하고 현대 사회의 실제 문자사용 양상과 부합하는 올바른 정자관을 견지하며 효과적인 한자 표준화 방안을 세워야 할 것이다.