REJOINDER TO JONATHAN SMITH, RESEARCH NOTE ON SHUN 舜

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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”。