≪훈민정음(訓民正音)≫ 해례본의 ‘예의편(例義篇)’ 구조와 ‘해례편(解例篇)’과의 상관관계 = A Study on the Structure of Yeui Part in Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon and Its Correlation with Haerye Part

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Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon is composed of both King Sejong’s Yeui Part (例義篇) (including King Sejong’s preface 世宗序文) and Jeong Inji and other seven scholars’ Haerye Part (解例篇) (including Jeong Inji’s preface 鄭麟趾序). To better understand the latter, this paper provides an account for the structure of the former, examining how the paragraphs constituting Yeui Part were interpreted and explicated in Haerye Part (解例篇), focusing on the correlation between them. The conclusion of this paper ends with a presentation of the two pictures that concisely describe the correlation between them.
The structure of Yeui Part is characterized as follows. First, Yeui Part is composed of King Sejong’s preface and Yeui (例義). Yeui, in more details, consists of nine stipulations : three stipulations for Hunminjeongeum alphabets and six stipulations for the use of letters. This finding is slightly different from the previous analysis of it as consisting of eight stipulations : three stipulations for the former and five stipulations for the use of the latter. Second, the dual use of the initial sounds as the final sounds (終聲復用初聲) in Yeui Part was expressed in one sentence, but we suggest that it is to be understood as an ambiguous stipulation that defines both the formation of letters in coda positions as part of the stipulations for Hunminjeongeum alphabets and the writing of characters in coda positions as part of the stipulations for the use of letters. Third, Yeui Part contains 45 sentences with 406 letters, and Haerye Part, 397 sentences with 4931 letters. Haeryebon all together comprises 442 sentences with 5337 letters.
The correlation between Yeui Part and Haerye Part in Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon has the following features. First, King Sejong’s preface and Jeong Inji’s preface were regarded as independent of each other, but this paper departs from this previous view. This paper argues that two-thirds of Jeong Inji’s preface were intended to explain, supplement, and represent King Sejong’s preface on the premise that the former was to append detailed interpretations of the latter [詳加解釋]. The other one-third of it served as a substantial preface for Haerye Part in the compilation of Haeryebon. Second, the stipulation of onset sounds in King Sejong’s Yeui Part differs from Haerye Part’s Explanations of the Forming of the Letters (制字解) as a theoretical stipulation, in regard to the arranging order of cheongtak (淸濁: clear and muddy), terminologies (byeongseo 竝書 vs. jeontak 全濁), the number of letters presented (17 vs. 23 letters), etc. This difference results from changes in terminology and the arranging order of cheongtak(淸濁) so that Yeui Part as a public notice was intended to effectively inform readers of the stipulations on Hunminjeongeum’s onset sounds. Third, the stipulation on the dual use of the initial sounds as the final sounds is intimately associated not only with Haerye Part’s Explanations of the Forming of the Letters (制字解) but also with its Explanations on the Final Sounds (終聲解) as writing stipulations. This paper provides a comprehensive account for empirical and theoretical grounds of the two competing views on this issue as well as the structure of paragraphs in Yeui Part. As a result, we propose that though it was phrased in only one sentence, this stipulation is better analyzed as an ambiguous one that accommodates both a stipulation on the formation of letters in coda positions and the writing of characters in coda positions. Fourth, the whole volume of Haeryebon including Jeong Inji’s preface is proved to have been compiled with a view to appending detailed interpretations of King Sejong’s Yeui Part.