It is of great significance to quantify the correspondence between the Chinese and the Korean pronunciations of Chinese characters at the syllable level because: first, it documents the contemporary pronunciations of Chinese characters in the two languages to understand their syllabic phonological correlations, which have not been previously examined; second, it serves as an important guideline for curriculum design and learning strategies for teaching and learning Korean as an L2, especially for L1 Chinese learners; third, such quantified relations can be used for the psycholinguistic research concerning word reading and processing in L2 Korean.
the present study aims to answer the following research questions: 1.