宋代学者提出“右文说”,以为“凡字,其类在左,其义在右。”并指出形声字的声符(多半在右边)往往表示意义,如“戋,小也。水之小者曰浅,金之小者曰钱,歹之小者曰残,贝之小者曰贱。如此之类,皆以戋为义。”另如青声字,晴、睛、清、精等均有精明之义。这种说法开拓了人们的眼界,推动了语源学的发展。尔后,清儒段玉裁在《说文解字注》中进一步指出“凡于声字多训大”,“凡从奇之字多训偏”,“凡从皮声字皆有分析之义”,“凡从句者皆训曲”,“凡衣声字皆训厚”等等。近人杨树达先生在欧洲语源学理论的影响下,锐意研究汉语语源学,曾明确指出,汉字“形声字居全数十分之 Song scholars put forward “the right text that” that “where the word, its class in the left, its meaning in the right.” And pointed out that the phonetic characters (mostly on the right) often indicate meaning, such as “戋, small also. The smaller the said shallow, the small gold who said money, evil little said Yue residue, the little Pui who said cheap. Such as, all with 戋 justice. ”Another such as the green voice words, clear, eyes, clear, fine And so on have the meaning of shrewdness. This view opens up people’s eyes and promotes the development of etymology. Later, Qing Yu Duan cut in “Shuo Wen Jie Zi Note” further pointed out that “where the multi-language training more words,” “from the odd word multi-training deviation”, “from the skin are all the meaning of the word analysis ”,“ Who are from the Sentences are all training songs ”,“ Where clothing words are all training thick ”and so on. Under the influence of the European Etymology Theory, Mr. Yang Shuda, a native of Hong Kong, is keen to study Chinese etymology. He pointed out clearly that the Chinese character "