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Located on East Asia, China, Korea and Japan have kept a long history of cultural communication. As the mediums of the transmission of culture, different languages and characters formed firm communication between them. Therefore, the three languages established long of firm lingual communication, and brought various changes in the aspects of phonetics, lexicology, and grammar through communicating processes. In the aspect of lexicology, numerous homonyms appeared between Chinese, Korean and Japanese. As a part of homonymy, Homonym Chinese characters were affected by both objective and subjective factors(historical, social and other objective factors, and the internal language system) during their formation, development, and the evolution processes. Although there only has a few homonym Chinese characters, they are of great significance in linguistic study, comparative study of Chinese characters, and the study of language acquisition and application etc. In particular, the study of the features of homonym Chinese characters’semantic relation classification and distribution, the study of the reasons and principles concerning evolution of semantic relation, and the study of the relationship between the languages in the evolution of semantic relation, can explore the deep relationships which are evolved from the firm lingual communication between Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Based on a comprehensive, systematic study of the background, the form and characteristics of communication, and the influences between Chinese, Korean and Japanese, this thesis focuses on the changes, inherent contacts of the three languages’lexicology communication ranging from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It takes Junior, the earliest comprehensive magazine released by North Korea, as an example, selecting423homonyms in Chinese, Korean, Japanese characters to from a database. It also analyzes the semantic relation classification, distribution and its features with a synchronic view, and gives the reasons and principles concerning evolution of semantic relation and the effects between each other. In addition, it explores the deep relationships which are evolved from the firm lingual communication between the three languages.This thesis consists of five parts. The introduction mainly introduces the contemporary studies of homonyms in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, and explains the purpose, significance, objects and the methods of this thesis.The first chapter is a general introduction of the formation, development, and characteristics of homonym Chinese characters, and the history of lexicology communication between the three languages. This chapter is divided into three parts:the first part is about lexicology communication and homonym Chinese characters’development under East Asian Chinese characters’culture; the second part is about the early movement of learning from the West, especially the lexicology communic ation; the third part is about the modern lexicology communication and the recent development of homonym Chinese characters.The second chapter takes the modern Korean journal Junior as study material, and elaborates the comparative study of homonyms in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is divided into two parts. The first part is about Chinese characters’usage and features in Junior, and the journal’s importance in the study of homonymy Chinese characters; second part is the introduction of the establishment of homonym Chinese characters’ database, and of homograph Chinese characters’distribution features.The third chapter is about the comparative study of homonym Chinese characters’semantic relation and the evolution of word meaning in Junior. It is divided into two parts. The first part classifies the423homonym Chinese characters as five types according to semantic relation, and discusses the characteristics of semantic relation classification, distribution and the features of the semantic relation; the second part, with a diachronic view, is a comparative analysis on homonym Chinese characters’semantic relations, the reasons of semantic evolution, and the certain illustration of the influences between the three languages.The fourth chapter uses contact linguistics theory and discusses mainly from bilateral and hierarchical the formation and development of homonym Chinese characters, the evolution processes of Chinese, Korean and Japanese and the inherent relations between the three languages. It also discusses the problems and significances of handing homonyms in language teaching practice.The fifth chapter is the conclusion. It concludes the main point of the whole thesis, and points out the deficiency existing in this study.