박선수(朴瑄壽)의『설문해자익징(說文解字翼徵)』에 대하여

Abstract

This article evaluates the Sulmunhaejaikjing, published in 1912, by Sun-su Park(朴瑄壽), a civil minister and ideographic scholar of the late Korean Chosun Dynasty. Sulmunhaejaikjing is to correct the errors of Sulmunhaeja(『說文解字』) which is the first form of dictionary which was compiled by Xu Shen(許愼) in the Late Han period (100A D.). It has 15 sections including one introductory section. 9353 characters are used in this dictionary in sojun(小篆) form. Park investigated and corrected Xu Shen's mistakes by using pre-sojun and kummun(金文) which had been used before Han Dynasty. This study explores and surveys, first, the literary background through Park's family line and periodical circumstances. Second, author's compilation motive and publishing term, and also his distinctive and independent methodology of different interpretation on Chinese characters. Third, Park's philosophical tendency espacially on the Confucian moralism, educational and self-realism in the period of late Chosun Dynasty, and lastly, inter-acting principles of Yin (陰) and Yan(陽), the five primary elements, Taoist thought. Sulmunhaejaikjing has several limitations, such as predate Kapgolmun, misinterpretations due to his Confucian perspectives and lacks of his investigated Chinese character's number. Nevertheless, he made demonstrative and progressive achievement on the part of ideographic research inspite of periodical behindness of Korean pre-modern age.