South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SARJHSS)
Volume-8 | Issue-01
Original Research Article
My Husband! Do you want for the Time to Flow Slow(西) and Slow again(十)? it is Possible when you (My Husband) and me (Your Wife), the Two Persons(二) Ensemble, will Protect(亠) together the Time to Pass Away so Swiftly! (Tcheonzamun 401st-416th)
Sangdeog Augustin Kim, Hyeonhi Regina Park, K. Daegon-Andrea Kim, Jiah Anna Kim, Sangmin Lee, Rosa Kim, Alain Hamon, Sohwa Therese Kim
Published : Jan. 6, 2026
Abstract
French Missionary Dallet (1874) described the thousand character essay in his book. The thousand character essay is called as Tcheonzamun (千字文) in Korea (Han, 1583). The method in the present study is ‘the analyze or the deletion of Chinese characters’ (Kim, 2023). The translation of Tcheonzamun was done on the meaning of Chinese character on Tcheonzamun (Park et al., 2021). The deletion occurs usually between the different Chinese characters (Kim, 2023). However, some times the deletion occurs on the same Chinese character. On the case [ ] marks were used in order to show the deletion on the same Chinese character. The Chinese characters were referred on the somewhat old Tcheonzamun book (Han, 1583). The title of this study is ‘My husband! Do you want for the time to flow slow(西) and slow again(十)? It is possible when you (my husband) and me (your wife), the two persons(二) ensemble, will protect(亠) together the time to pass away so swiftly! (Tcheonzamun 401st-416th)’. There are two repetitions for each line of this poem. It is in order to compare the original notes and the deleted ones.