South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature (SARJALL)
Volume-1 | Issue-3
Original Research Article
The story of Chinese characters (0000-0010) when translated on Korean pronunciation
Hyeonhi Regina Park, Kunjoo Daegon Andrea Kim, Jiah Anna Kim, Rosa Kim, Alain Hamon, Sohwa Therese Kim, Sangdeog Augustin Kim
Published : Dec. 30, 2019
Abstract
We, the authors, tended to have interest on Chinese characters and their origin. It is considered that the people of Shang (or it was called as Eun) country, the second dynasty of old China has commenced the work of creation of Chinese characters. We tried to know the meaning of the randomly chosen 11 Chinese characters (0000-0010). At first, we analyzed the Chinese character into several parts, and then we pronounced those parts of a Chinese character on Korean pronunciation. We found next two things. At first Chinese characters are well understood if we translate the character on Korean pronunciation. And the second is that there are distinct differences between the original meaning and the present meaning; the original meaning is deeply stronger the presently used meaning. As a conclusion, it seems that the ancient Korean people have created the Chinese characters.