【摘要】The complexity of variants is more prominent because of the greater randomness of manuscripts. Symbolization is one of the essential characteristics of the spread and variation of Chinese characters in Vietnam. There are many types of symbols in the configuration of Vietnamese variants, and most of them are derived from cursive handwriting in China. Based on the Vietnamese symbolic variants and from the angle of combining the handwriting in calligraphy with the symbol theory in philology, the present article analyzes eight kinds of common symbols in variants in Vietnamese manuscripts and probes into their sources, hoping to encourage a preliminary discussion regarding their symbolic features’?
【关键词】Cursive script, symbolization, variants
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