漢字語는 한국으로 도입되는 과정에서 원래의 형태와 의미가 통째로 차용되는 한편, 한국 어 어휘 체계의 내부적 특성과 제약 및 고유의 언어 관습에 따라 적절히 수정되어, 형태·기 능·의미 등 여러 면에서 변화를 가져왔다. 하지만 한국어 漢字語와 중국어 어휘의 관계는 여 전히 일정한 대응관계를 이루고 있다. 본 논문은 한국어 漢字語와 현재 중국에서 사용되고 있는 어휘의 유래와 특징 및 對應과 非對應관계를 비교했다. 또한 이를 통해 중국어 어휘와 동일하거나 유사 혹은 반대되는 의미로 사용되는 한자어의 특성 및 용법의 공통점과 차이점 을 찾고자 했다.

The purpose of this study is observing the process of learning Chinese character of preschool children and clarifying their language ability and the level and range of vocabulary. This paper sees the process of Korean children acquiring vocabulary in two ways: The first one is researching the vocabularies used in children's stories that preschool children often read or hear. The other one is researching the vocabularies that children hear or speak in the conversation with surroundings. To this end, two methodologies have been adopted: literature analysis and observation analysis. Literature analysis is investigating the fairy tales that children likes and analyzing the Chinese characters and vocabularies used. Observation analysis is recording the conversations between a child and his surroundings, and then transcribing and analyzing it. Almost every child reads fairy tales that helps to the formation of children's language ability. Therefore, the language of children's stories is the expectancy which Korean society expects children to understand the accomplished living environment and culture to. Therefore, children contact the basic cultural vocabulary in Korean society, contacting fairy tales. Children develop their intelligence and language through engaging in the daily conversations with their parents and acquaintances. Although they are influenced by communications with their peers of the same age group, the contents and range of the language used in the context of their surroundings affect a lot more. Thus, the process of children's language acquisition is developed through the conversations with parents and acquaintances. It is very possible that the language ability of a child in a family is transferred by parents rather than the intelligence and the ability of the child. Consequently, studying children’s Chinese character vocabulary through the two processes, you can see how level of the Chinese character vocabulary that children contact and use is, what characteristics it has and how much the range of use is.