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A Study on the Word Classification and the Meaning of the Term “Tong” in the Dictionary of the 《Xiandai Hanyu Cidian》

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2019, (54), pp.3-16
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2019..54.001
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : October 10, 2019
  • Accepted : November 20, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Kim, Jong-chan 1

1안동대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

According to the 《Xiandai Hanyu Cidian》 dictionary, the Chinese term “Tong” has the word classification of adjective, verb, adverb and preposition. I agree with the dictionary’s classification as an adjective, adverb, and preposition, but I don’t entirely agree with it’s classification as a verb. 《Xiandai Hanyu Cidian》 classifies the term, “Tong” in usuage as “Tong Ganku Gong Huannan” as an adverb, but I think that it is a verb. If we look for the term, “Gong” which is deeply related to the “Tong”, we can easily find that “Tong” and “Gong” have the same meaning of “Gongtong chengshou” or “Gongtong Juyou” when they are used in the structure of “Tong Ganku Gong Huannan”. Given this, we come to the conclusion that the verb “Tong” has two different meanings. So we should revise the definition of the word “Tong” in the 《Xiandai Hanyu Cidian》 dictionary.

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