‘훈민정음’ 문자 만든 원리와 속성의 중층 담론

Abstract

This report indicates the multiple property of the Korean Alphabet, Hunminjeongeum and the complex principles of creating of discourse meaning mentioned in ‘Jejahae(制字解)' of Hunminjeongeum. We regard the principle of Hunminjeongeum as circular vein from fundamental stratum which reflects natural sound as it is to final stratum which is integrated one of science. We classified the discourstic meanings of Hunminjeongeum as the fundamental stratum, and the process stratum, the creative stratum, the contents stratum, the writing stratum, last stratum. We regard the fundamental stratum as the strategy of reflecting ‘nature and sound' as it is, process stratum as universality insurance through dualizing consonant and vowel's and actualizing distinctiveness through dividing into three parts of choseong(初聲, consonant), jungseong(中聲, vowel) and jongseong(終聲, consonant). We regard the creative stratum as three principles of hieroglyphic, graphic, harmony. The contents stratum is consisted of symbolism meaning for the oriental philosophy that sound-feature endowment that is reflected phoneme character and in order to persuit harmony. The writing stratum regards choseong, jungseong and jongseong as strategy of writing at a time for the one character. These complex character system regards that it is constructed one of science so we regard the last stratum as ‘science'. Due to these systematization of stratums and complexing arrangement, we could wholly reveal the character property of Hunminjeongeum. Therefore, limiting the existing Hunminjeongeum of category of character as phoneme character, natural character etc. is found out one-sided view recognition. We found that Hunminjeongeum is the complex character which has the characteristic of the most important phoneme character and hieroglyphic, graphic, natural and syllabic letter character together.