This paper discusses and analyzes the new meaning of the word ‘Geng’ (梗) which has appeared in recent years, and concludes that there are two new meanings of the word ‘Geng’ (梗) in recent years: one, ‘laugh point’, and the other ‘the plot’. The latter developed from the former which had come from the misappropriation of the word ‘Gen’ (哏). So this view is held by the ‘Geng’ (梗) and ‘Gen’ (哏) as the font under the guise of relations, glyph is ‘Geng’ (梗) under the guise of for the ‘Gen’ (哏) because use frequency is higher, after ‘Geng’ (梗) also gradually obtained the meaning of ‘Gen’ (哏), and then the first meaning as the change of use requirements, the semantic also expanded, developed what ‘Gen’ (哏) does not have second meaning. Then this paper analyzes the current situation of the use of the two new meanings of ‘Geng’ (梗), and concludes that, according to them, the corpus of new words of ‘X梗’ can be divided mainly into A and B types. In addition to the semantics, the two categories also have obvious differences in the number of syllables, word formation, productivity and other aspects. Moreover, the emergence of some ‘梗 X’ structures, namely C type, also shows the strong vitality of the new meaning of ‘Geng’ (梗).

• 朴興洙(韓國外國語大學校中語中文學科) | 박흥수
• 張梁(韓國外國語大學校中語中文學科) | 장량