≪훈몽자회(訓蒙字會)≫의 우성조자(又聲調字) 연구

Abstract

Hunmongjahoe 訓蒙字會 was written in A.D.1527 by Sejin Choi, who was a scholar in Chosun dynasty. He collected 3360 Chinese characters, which were important characters for the elementary students, and listed the sounds of the characters in Hunminjeongeum 訓民正音. Thus, the characters in Hunmongjahoe not only can be considered as fundamental letters at that time, also can be treated as a precious material, which preserves real sounds of the characters of those days. This study is about wuseongjoja 又聲調字, the multitone Chinese Characters in Hunmongjahoe. They presented in the book as follows: ‘又○聲’, ‘又音○’, ‘本○ 聲’, ‘國語○○’ and ‘正音○.’ Some characters do not show any multitone directly like forms above, but those characters were included in this study, if they have more than two tones actually. The total data is 109 characters. The first chapter of the paper is an introduction. In the Second chapter, all the wuseongjoja were listed, and they were classified into three types according to the presenting forms. Besides, the proportion of each type of wuseongjoja were presented. The third chapter is about the functions of wuseongjoja. The functions were classified into three types such as the difference of meaning, the difference of parts of speech, and others, which included the rest kinds of the functions. Based on the results of this study, ‘又○聲’ is the most common form, and the difference of meaning is the most common function of the wuseongjoja.