A Contrastive Study on Equivalent Compound Words in Korean and Chinese: Focusing on the Semantic Relationships of the Components

The purpose of this study is to examine the corresponding types of Korean-Chinese equivalent compound words based on a list of Korean equivalent compound words derived from the literature research method. To this end, a total of 34 Korean equivalent compound words that are educationally meaningful for Chinese learners were selected based on the Korean learning vocabulary list of the National Language Institute in Korea. Next, the list of Korean equivalent compound words was categorized into three types: 8 complementary compound words, 16 contiguous compound words, and 10 overlapping compound words. Finally, the corresponding types of Korean-Chinese equivalent compound words were presented in nine different cases. This study is significant in that it compiled a list of Korean equivalent compound words that differ from Chinese equivalent compound words based on the semantic relationships of the components, and further analyzed the corresponding types of KoreanChinese equivalent compound words in nine detailed cases.