This study was intended to draft an enactment method of standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education' 1,800 characters and, on the basis of that, to propose the standard character type of each of 1,800 characte ...
This study was intended to draft an enactment method of standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education' 1,800 characters and, on the basis of that, to propose the standard character type of each of 1,800 characters, in order to solve the problem that standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education' 1,800 characters which were announced by Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development(at present Ministry of Education) on Dec. 2000 are not proposed.
To achieve such goals, first of all, following studies were conducted and submitted as a thesis.
First, 「Historical consideration of enactment processes for ‘Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’ was to examine for what background and purpose Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’ were enacted. Through this study, it was possible to ascertain the history of enactment of Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’ as well as to look into the background under which their character types get to contain some problems.
Second, 「Consideration of selection standard of countries belonging to Chinese characters cultural areas for standard character types」 was to examine the selection standard of standard Chinese character types stipulated by countries, such as China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan, etc., which belong to Chinese characters areas. This study provided references for preparing the basis of standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’.
Third, with respect to 「Comparison of standards for proposing character types of Korean·Chinese·Japanese Chinese characters dictionary」, main characters dictionaries actually used in Korea, Chinese and Japan were selected and standards and methods of character types proposed by such dictionaries were examined. This study aims to look into how standards for proposing Chinese character types are realized in actual characters dictionaries, which was helpful to proposing a method of standard character types of Korean 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’.
Carrying out the above-mentioned studies, simultaneously, studies on a selection method of standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’, the ultimate goal of this study tasks, were conducted.
As a method for selecting standard character types of ‘Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’, following methods were proposed: a method of regarding character types used in Korean characters and pronunciation dictionaries as standard ones; a method of regarding character sources as standard character types; a method of character types which reflected character sources as standard ones; a method of regarding character types of 『Kangxicidian』 as standard ones; and a method for integrating methods above listed were proposed.
Korean character and pronunciation dictionaries include standard character types in those days, which are the character types that have been used by Korean ancestors for a long time, so such character types became one of the bases for selecting standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education’.
Importance is placed on a fact that character types which reflect character sources are determined as standard character types in proposing standards for standard character types especially in Taiwan. Because character sources contain main meanings of Chinese characters, it can be said suitable that character sources are determined as one of the bases.
『Kangxicidian』 has had great effects on Korean standard character types since introduction of Chinese characters to Korea in the latter part of Joseon Dynasty. Especially, it also says that character types of 『Kangxicidian』 should be reflected in the present 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education'. Accordingly, the standard character types of 『Kangxicidian』 were determined as one of the bases.
Integrating the above three bases, I made studies for selecting a draft for standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education'. A part of such results was proposed in this report, and a thesis including the final method is scheduled to be submitted in the future.
If the standard character types of 'Basic Chinese characters for classical Chinese education' which are to be provided through this study get approval from the nation and society, this can be directly utilized in print media such as textbooks, Character character dictionaries, newspapers, book, etc. This also can be used for Chinese character types education, Chinese characters-writing education, etc. in the sites where Chinese characters and classical Chinese are taught, and will also contribute to study on character type science, a field of Chinese character science.