In the pre-Qin period in China, the monosyllable expression of death had been a stable word system. Until the mid-ancient period, the related words presented bisyllablization, and the range of the pragmatics was also enlarged. The epitaph corpora in the Sui and Tang dynasty is abundant and believable. The words reflect six ways of burial: generally buried words, words buried to the ancestral grave, temporarily buried words, reinter words, and multi-burial words. Among them, there are three words which were needed to be distinguished in the reinter words. ‘Gai Zang’ meaning the burial site has to be changed for objective reasons. ‘Gai Bin’ must be done so as well because of the canonization. Meanings of ‘Gai Bian’ range simply from the morgue to the cemetery. In addition, three of multi-burial ones, ‘He Bian’ and ‘Tong Xue’ mean buried with one’s husband or wife, but ‘He Zang’ can be used to point to bury to the ancestral grave. To sum up, investigating words related to the burial and its ways, compared with the word examples in the handed-down documents, help us observe the disyllabic development of medieval words, explain the relevant funeral vicissitudes issues, supplement Chinese dictionary, and add missing senses from early examples.

1. 傳統死亡義用詞
2. 隋唐墓誌中的埋葬方式雙音詞
3. 用語體現的喪禮變遷
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• 安靜(河北科技師範學院文法學院) | 안정