"笺"字《说文》所释非本义,通过古代语文辞书释义的对比和研究有利于发掘"笺"本义及捋清其相关引申义。"笺"最初表示用于书写的狭长小竹片,继而引申出文体名等义项,其后,被郑玄用作训诂著作的书名而逐渐衍生注解、训释义。
The definition of Jian in Shuowen(China's Words and their Stories)is not the original meaning.Based on the analysis of ancient Chinese dictionaries,the author of this paper holds that the Chinese character "Jian "has its implied meaning. "Jian"originally means the small-long-narrow bamboo slip used in writing and then came to mean officialese.Because of being used as a title of explanations of words in ancient books by Zhengxuan,"Jian"came to have its annotation.