Comparative Analysis of Chinese and South Korean Four-Character Idioms Related to the Number ‘Hundred’

Abstract

As the crystallization of national culture and life wisdom, idioms are a very important part of language learning. Based on some idioms with ‘hundred’in the ‘Chinese Dictionary’and those with ‘백’in the ‘표준국어대사전’(온라인 사전), this paper makes a com-parative study of Chinese and South Korean idioms. Through applying the theory of cultural linguistics and the theory of comparative lin-guistics, Chinese and South Korean idioms are compared in the following four aspects: ‘same form and same meaning’, ‘diferent form while same meaning’, ‘same form while diferent meaning’and ‘diferent form and diferent meaning’, which hopes to be helpful to some people who teach and learn Chinese and South Korean.