동아시아 ‘조기’에 대한 인식

Abstract

The first step in people's perception of things usually begins with naming them. This paper is a study on the oldest and most familiar fish names in our lives, and the subject of study is "early season." Early croaker is the favorite fish of the Korean people, and we looked at the early perceptions of Korea, China, and Japan by considering how the name was named in Korea from ancient times to the present, where its etymology and origin came from, and the types and types of various names of the three countries. In the case of Korea, croaker is called "조기(助氣)", "조기(曹基)", "조기(曹機)" and "천지어(天知魚)" to the shape and size of the fish, and is also called "석수어(石首魚)" "준수어(蹲水魚)" and "춘수(春水)" to the sound and size of the fish. In the case of China, it is mainly called "huángyú(黄魚)", "huánghuāyú(黃花魚)", and "huángguāyú(黄瓜鱼)" to the shape, color, and habit of fish, and in Japan, it is also called "イシモチ", "シログチ(白口)" and "グチ(愚痴)" due to the shape, color, and habit of fish. From the name of this early period, it can be seen that the three countries of Korea, China, and Japan have different perceptions of the same early period. In the case of Korea and China, there is only a difference in what kind of fish they prefer, but it is the same that corvina is considered the best among fish. In Japan, on the other hand, yellow corvina was not such an important fish. In this way, the study of fish names not only provides useful data on the general principles of naming objects, but also provides an understanding of different perspectives, cultures, and conventional wisdom, cultural customs revealed in Chinese characters, and language exchange between regions and countries.