Idu script
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Idu (Korean: Script error: No such module "Lang".; Hanja: Script error: No such module "Lang".; lit. ''official's reading'') was a writing system developed during the Three Kingdoms period of Korea (57 BC – 668 AD) to write the Korean language using Chinese characters ("hanja"). It used Hanja to represent both native Korean words and grammatical morphemes as well as Chinese loanwords. The script, which was developed by Buddhist monks, made it possible to record Korean words through their equivalent meaning or sound in Chinese. It was used primarily to write official documents and the imperial examinations from 958 to 1894 AD.[1]
The term idu may refer to various systems of representing Korean phonology through hanja, which were used from the early Three Kingdoms to Joseon periods. In this sense, it includes hyangchal,[2] the local writing system used to write vernacular poetry[2] and gugyeol writing. Its narrow sense only refers to idu proper[3] or the system developed in Goryeo (918–1392), and first referred to by that name in the Jewang ungi.
History
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Aside from writing official documents and imperial examinations, the Idu script was also used to clarify Chinese government documents written in Classical Chinese so that they could be understood by Korean readers,[6] to teach Koreans Classical Chinese, and to translate Chinese documents such as the Ming legal code and the Essentials of agriculture and sericulture (Nongsan jiyao) (ordered by the King Taejong in 1414).[7]
Example
The following example is from the 1415 book Yangjam Gyeongheom Chwaryo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang"., lit. 'Collected Summary of the Experiences of Silkworm Cultivation').
| Literary Chinese | 蠶陽物大惡水故食而不飮 |
|---|---|
| Idu transcription | 蠶段陽物是乎等用良水氣乙厭却桑葉叱分喫破爲遣飮水不冬 |
| Old Korean | Template:Script/Korean |
| Modern Korean | 누에는 양물로써, 물기를 싫어해, 뽕잎만 먹고, 물을 마시지 않는다. |
| Meaning | Silkworm is Yang (positive) animal, it doesn't like water's gi, so it eats mulberry leaves but does not drink water. |
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Li, Yu (2019-11-04). The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-00-069906-7.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hannas, William C. (2013-03-26). The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0216-8.
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nam Pung-hyeon (남풍현) (2000), Idu Study [吏讀研究], Seoul, Korea: Taehak Publishing (太學社)
Bibliography
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