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Consideration of the Selection Basis of Standard Shapes of Chinese Characters in Chinese Characters-Using Area(Korea, China, Taiwan, hongkong, Japan.)

Kim, Young-og 1

1단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

 This paper aims to examine the selection basis of standard shapes of Chinese Characters of each country in cultural areas of Chinese characters and to grasp the features.  Each country in cultural areas of Chinese characters has concretely proposed the selection basis of its standard shapes of Chinese characters from the early stage of the 21th century. There was a country like China whose selection basis of its standard shapes of Chinese characters was the same as the one used now, and there were countries such as Korea or Japan whose selection basis changed in a certain time.  Reviewing such a selection basis of standard shapes of Chinese characters, it could be confirmed that other nations than Korea based such a selection on common use, sources of characters, simplification, etc. Meanwhile, in Korea, it was found such a selection was based on the frequency, the shapes of Chinese characters used in Japan and characters shapes of 『Kangxizidian(康熙字典)』.  Through consideration of the selection basis of standard shapes of Chinese characters carried out in the paper, the selection basis of shapes of Chinese characters at present being used in our country could be confirmed. This result is expected to a reference in reviewing the basis for selecting standard shapes of ‘Basic Chinese characters for educating Chinese writing’ in the future.

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