User talk:Osori

Gochujang

I don't think it takes a word to be Sino-Korean to have a Hanja representation. The article mentions a Hanja transcription from Jeungbo sallim gyeongje in the 18th century, and that's the one I used.

Consider words in other languages that have been written in the Hanja/Kanji/Han-nom script: the Japanese used Kundoku in their literature, writing indigenous words as Kanbun but pronouncing them as the original; the Vietnamese used Han Nom to write their vernacular, blending 漢文 with new characters in Chữ Nôm. In either case a word being indigenous does not exclude it from having a representation in Chinese and related ideographs. --Artoria2e5 contrib 06:11, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@Artoria2e5: Hi, Artoria2e5! The phrase "Sino-Korean word" I used was a translation of hanjaeo (한자어; 漢字語) which literally is "hanja word" or "a word with hanja representation". The word gochu (고추) in gochujang indeed was derived from the Sino-Korean (hanja) word gocho (고초; 苦椒), but it isn't even pronounced that way. In the Korean word gochu-jang, only the jang part has its hanja. In this case I'm not suggesting the word is of natie Korean origin. It is of Sino-Korean origin. It just doesn't have hanja representation anymore. Please see the gochu-jang entry in the Standard Korean Language Dictionary by the National Institute of Korean Language. The jang part has its hanja and the gochu part doesn't. Comparing Korean use of Chinese characters to that of Japanese doesn't seem like a good idea, as Japanese writing system consists of the Chinese characters kanji, the Japanese syllabaries kana, and the Latin script romaji. Korean writing system consists of the Korean alphabet hangul, and the use of Chinese characters and Latin script is quite limited. (They are occasionally used in parentheses to distinguish between homonyms or used for aesthetical purposes). --Osori (talk) 06:21, 20 February 2018 (UTC)