韓國 漢字音과 中國 漢字音의 對應에 관한 硏究

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to explain the regular correspondent relation between the Korean pronunciation of Chinese characters and the Chinese pronunciation of Chinese characters from a synchronic viewpoint. The result of this study is expected to provide basic information necessary for not only Chinese who learn Korean but also Koreans who learn Chinese to develop and apply ‘the strategy to correspond Korean pronunciation Chinese pronunciation of Chinese characters.’ For this study, we selected 824 characters from the list of Chinese characters for Korean language education, and corresponded between the Korean representative pronunciation of these Chinese characters and their Chinese representative pronunciation. Correspondence between the pronunciations of Chinese characters was divided into three types as follows: 1) correspondence between the initial consonant of Korean and the initial consonant of Chinese; 2) correspondence between the part corresponding to V in the open syllable of Korean and the final consonant of Chinese; and 3) correspondence between the part corresponding to VC in the closed syllable of Korean and the final consonant of Chinese. Based on these correspondences, we showed that there is a regular correspondent relation between the Korean pronunciation of Chinese characters and the Chinese pronunciation of Chinese characters, and suggested the possibility for Chinese learners who learn Korean to guess the meaning of unknown Korean words originated from Chinese characters using these correspondences. In order to show concrete examples, ‘Seong-gyeong(성경, 聖經)’ and ‘Gak-seong(각성, 覺醒)’ of the Korean words were presented as examples to show the process of understanding Chinese characters through ‘the strategy to correspond Korean pronunciation Chinese pronunciation of Chinese characters.’