「漢韓大辭典」의 構件과 자형 정비

Abstract

This article, regarding modification and development of web-font which is a part of web service project for “The Unified Digital Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary”, is prepared to check out errors and defects of fonts occurring in the process in which print-fonts are transformed into web-fonts and to modify and compensate them. In first stage, every entry character in the Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary is examined one by one. Then in second stage, referring “Component Parts Analysis Chart” arranged by IRG (Ideographic Rapporteur Group), component parts omitted in the first stage are reflected. For the result, the final 224 component parts are extracted. In the next stage in which a font for each extracted component part is determined, traditional dictionaries for phonetics and for characters such as Kangxizidian, currently circulated major dictionaries of Korea, China, and Japan, as well as some key dictionaries in Korea are consulted, so that the double axes of traditionality and universality are taken as the fundamental for synthetic judgement. Among them, the cases in which traditionality and universality are indifferent are most, and in such cases font determinations are relatively easy. However, in the cases that the two are unidentical or that neither traditionally nor universally representative font exists, various approaches are required. This paper sorts component parts determinations into five cases: 1)accordance between traditionality and universality, 2) discordance between traditionality and universality, 3) conflict between universality and other fonts, 4) conflict between two fonts or more regardless of temporal distinction, and 5) jumble of plural fonts. In font determination process, various criteria such as origin of a character, coherence of radical system, equity with similar component parts, contemporary people’s hand-writing habits, and stroke accuracy were applied to resolve problems. Such discussions not only from narrow perspective may allow various users of The Unified Digital Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary to have convenience for learning and searching Chinese characters by font standardization, but also from wide perspective may provide a proposal to establish a standardized Chinese character fonts in national level. If Korea’s standardized Chinese character fonts are established, it could help to resolve confusing jumble of Chinese character fonts in various chinese character learning books including sino-korean textbooks, various printed materials including books and newspapers, and computer fonts.