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A Brief Review of Chinese character '買' and '賣'

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2020, (58), pp.3-28
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2020..58.001
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : October 10, 2020
  • Accepted : November 20, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

CAI CHUN YU 1

1국민대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

There are some Chinese Character '買' and '賣'. Except detailed context, they are difficult to assort because they have both historically mean 'buy' and 'sell'. In this paper, we study the features and functional attributes of two Chinese Characters '買' and '賣', and discuss the relation with 'yù', '儥', '鬻', and '粥'. '買' means commodity trading. In ancient times, there were two meanings of 'buy' and 'sell' in '買', and only the meaning of 'buy' was expressed later. Its character changed to '買' as 'text hand' after '隸變'(ornamental "seal" characters), and also changed to '买' as cursive characters in Simplified Chinese characters. '賣mài' belongs to associative compounds and phonetic compounds, and was '' because it is composed of '出' and '買'. Before '賣' turned up, the character '買' which comes from the literature that is before the front age of Chin dynasty has two meanings of 'buy' and 'sell'. ' yù' belongs to the 【貝部】, and in the 『说文』it means 'walking around the street and selling goods'. The character follows '貝' and ' ', and means 'show off'. It was difficult to distinguish 'yù' from '賣mài' after '隸變'. Comparing the 'mài' which belongs to 【出部】 with 'yù' which belongs to 【貝部】, there is a difference at '罒'(variation of '网) and '四(囧:'Kyung')'(variation of '目'). '儥' belongs to the 【人】 part in 『说文』. In 『周礼』, it is used as "儥" and it has two meanings: "buy" and "sell". '鬻' follows '', '米', and is also called 'yù'. It has two meanings of 'buy' and 'sell'. '鬻' is the original character of '粥', and is phonetic loan character which is close to '' in sound.

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