“苟日新,日日新,又日新。”多被引用表示求新,句中“苟”通常理解为表假设的副词,又有观点认为是“茍”字之误。本文通过考察两字的字形本义,结合两字讹误的例子,认为两字形近,混同完全可能;并紧扣该句箴言原始出处,从语义、句法、语用三个方面进行探讨,明确该句中“苟”为“茍”字形误。 “Gou day new, day after day new, and Japan. ” Many are cited for reference, the sentence “Gou ” is usually understood as the adage of the table hypothesis, another point of view is “Gou ” word error. In this paper, by examining the original meaning of the two-character glyphs and combining with the examples of the double-word corrupted, we conclude that the two glyphs are close and the confusion is quite possible. We also discuss the original source of the proverb from the following three aspects: semantics, syntax and pragmatics. In the “Gou ” as “Gou ” shape error.