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The Chinese character is an ideographic, also we can called semantic script, every characters shape already has own meaning. Some of the Chinese Characters has same components but when make one Characters use different positions. The change in position is also related to the meaning of Chinese characters. For example, 忙 and 忘 are with the same components as 心 and 亡, but two characters own meaning ‘busy’ and ‘forgetting’, due to two components have a different positions in Characters, So we can know Chinese characters components and position of components also can affect the meaning of characters.
“Even if it is the same components, it affects the meaning of Chinese characters depending on the different components position” is one of the long-standing arguments in the Chinese character Study Society. If so, it can be estimate that there is a semantic correlation between some of Chinese characters with one components in the same position.
To verify this, this study examined the this speculation, by the ‘iconicity’ theory and semantic field theory analysed characters that include ‘心’ components in the ≪Xiandai Hanyucidian 现代汉语词典≫ and ≪Shuowenjiezi说文解字≫.
‘心’ components have three different shape 心, 忄, 㣺 by positions that used in some Characters. This Three shape only one shape before “Libian” period, only different positions in some Characters. the theory of this paper is that the semantic relationship will also differ depending on the different positions. The subjects of this study are a total of 128 characters, with 36 characters in the form of a 心, 90 characters in the form of a 忄, and 2 characters in the form of a 㣺. Through the study, the semantic relationship of Chinese characters could be analyzed in a parametric approach by connecting the positions of the Chinese characters meanings.
As a result of the analysis, the vocabulary in each semantic field formed a derivative meaning that is somewhat far from the meaning of ‘heart’, which is the true meaning and basic meaning of heart, and they mainly formed vocabulary with [+emotion] and [+perception]. More than half of them had [+emotion] semantics and created words that represented various human emotions, and these characteristics were prominent in the fields of 心and 忄. On the other hand, in terms of emotional color, passive and negative colors were much more prominent than equally positive colors in the three semantic fields. In addition, semantic categories differed in the heart, 忄, and 㣺 semantic fields, followed by the 心, 忄, and 㣺 semantic fields. In particular, in the case of Chinese characters belonging to the 忄 shape components, the types of meanings were much more diverse, complex, and productive. Through this, it was confirmed that even if the same components is used, the semantic type differs slightly depending on the different location.