Abstract

Cheonuisogam, a version in classical Chinese, has two different versions of translation in Korean, Cheonuisogameonhae: a hand-written version and a woodblock-printed version. This article compared two versions and discussed some important characteristics of them in terms of translation and grammar. In formal aspect of translation, namely text structures, a hand-written version is more similar to a version in classical Chinese than a woodblock-printed version. In substantial aspect, especially text content divided by various division markers of text, reflections of notes, etc., a woodblock-printed version is more similar to a version in classical Chinese than a hand-written version. A hand-written tends to translate a version in classical Chinese literally, and use words of Idu-style which isn’t found in a woodblock-printed version. It’s difficult to find a general tendency in translations of sentences because of different interpretations on sentences of a version in classical Chinese between two versions in Modern Korean. However, double negative sentences are translated into affirmative sentences in a hand-written version, but not in a woodblock-printed version. Besides both a hand-written version and a woodblock-printed version translate affirmative sentences used in contexts of cross-examine into negative interrogative sentences which have a function of check question. Among various characteristics of grammar in Modern Korean found in these versions, it’s noteworthy that two versions in Modern Korean show complicated structures of quoted sentences and only a hand-written version shows subject particles, ‘-kyʌosheo/kyʌosha, -ka’, declarative sentence endings, ‘-sʌpnʌiita, -sʌpnʌita, -teoita’.