한문교육용 기초한자의 字形과 字序에 대한 管見

Abstract

The basic Chinese characters, 1,800 letters, for Chinese writing education established by the Ministry of Education were first enacted in 1972 and is now used with some letters adjusted through the study of Society for Classical Chinese Education in 2000. Though there have been a variety of studies on the basic Chinese characters for a Chinese writing education, but only a few studies on each of the letter type, the sound of the letter, the meaning of the letter and the quantity of the letter and the letter arrangement order. Accordingly, in this article, the study was limited to the letter type and the letter arrangement order. In the letter type section, we examined the concept of a proper letter(a letter in the proper shape), a main letter(a letter made by the main meaning), a popular letter(a letter type used by the populace) and a different type letter(a letter whose shape is different from others). The proposal was presented that basically not a different type letter or a popular letter but a proper letter should be used in the basic Chinese characters for a Chinese writing education, but in case of a popular letter or a different type letter, which are widely accepted and used, they should be substituted by a proper letter. Also, we looked into the arrangement method and characteristics of Chinese characters showed in the Chinese characters table(the table on which Chinese characters are arranged) of Korean, Chinese and Japanese and also proposed that a problem of the letter arrangement order should be discussed in the study on the basic Chinese characters for a Chinese writing education.