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A Review on Meaning of ‘Si’ Character in 『Huangdineijing』

  • The Journal Of Korean Medical Classics
  • Abbr : JKMC
  • 2012, 25(3), pp.51~56
  • Publisher : 대한한의학원전학회
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Korean Medicine

심현아 1 Song Jichung 1 맹학영 2 Eom Dong Myung 1

1원광대학교
2중부대학교

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ABSTRACT

Objective : Every language has twofold aspects in meaning of characters such as ‘lead’ means guide as a verb and ‘lead’ means one of metals. Chinese character has several meanings because it is phonogram, even if those are exactly same in shapes. we have concern how different meaning of the character ‘Si(死)’ is in traditional medical classics. Method : we try to find out the meaning of ‘Si’ excluding meaning of ‘Si’, ‘death’ in Huangdineijing. Result : ‘Si’ means ‘death’ primary and means ‘serious disease to death’, ‘losing consciousness just like death’ and so on. Conclusion : Someone who have concern traditional medical classics have to give attentions that characters in classics could get different meanings in same character.

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