紙
부수: 糸
획수: 10획
紙 simply means paper.
紙 = 糸 + 氏
X = semantic + phonetic
• 糸 depicts silk and simply means ‘silk’.
• 氏 depicts a mallet-shaped object, but is only used phonetically
Before the invention of paper, texts were written on materials such as silk. 紙 later became associated with paper.
Evolution:
紙 = silk remnants ➔ silk used for writing ➔ paper
Mnemonic
Remember that people used to write on cloth materials such as silk 糸before paper 紙 was invented. Imagine a family business 氏 that specialises in making silk fabric for recording texts.
Vocab
| 紙幣 | 지폐 | paper money; banknote |
| 表紙 | 표지 | book cover; binding |
| 便紙 | 편지 | letter |
| 休紙 | 휴지 | waste paper; toilet paper |
| 白紙 | 백지 | white paper; blank paper |
| 紙面 | 지면 | paper (sheet) |
| 壁紙 | 벽지 | wallpaper |
| 板紙 | 판지 | cardboard |
| 깜紙 | 깜지 | study/detention paper |
| 封紙 | 봉지 | bag; pouch |
| 紙匣 | 지갑 | wallet; purse |
| 用紙 | 용지 | paper used somehow |
| 化粧紙 | 화장지 | toilet paper |
| 方眼紙 | 방안지 | graph paper |
| 新聞紙 | 신문지 | newspaper |
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Bibliography
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 紙].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 834]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 紙, 糸, 氏].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 148]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.