한국문헌 소재 이체자 정형화 방안 (1) – 口가 포함된 자형을 중심으로 –

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to make a question about how to organize and standardize the variants Characters in Korean old works. When old books digital database produced by the Republic of Korea, is to replace standard characters input with variants for readability reasons, so its original data and database data are inconsistent. But, want to publish a Character dictionary about Korean unique glyph, you should include all variants of each Character. But we can’t get all the income in Character glyph. We must judge the rationale. In this study, the classification and type characteristics of variant Characters are mentioned, and the possibility that variant Characters are prefixes is also explained. This paper mainly studies a kind of words which contain “口” components. Component 口 is used alone without any change in shape, but when a word is generated with other components, no matter the number of strokes, components and strokes, there are many glyph changes. The change of component’s 口 can be divided into the categories of 口, 吅, 僉, 品(喿), 𠱠, 㗊(器). Some Characters suitably summarize standard characters; some characters need new glyph characters; some characters are difficult to determine which classification to generalize. Through this study, found that many variants characters in Korean old works, do not exist in Chinese and Japanese. I hoped that a comparative study of the variants in Korea and other countries, will prove the similarities and differences in the cultural circle of Han-characters in East Asia.