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The aim of this study is to analyze the aspects of body terms used as classifiers in Korean and Chinese which are both classifier languages. Relevant body terms were collected from seven Korean texts including two dictionaries and five previous studies and five Chinese texts that include three dictionaries and two previous studies. At first, the object words are introduced. Body parts that are used in both languages in common are ‘head’, ‘nose’, ‘mouth’, ‘face’, ‘stomach’, ‘hands’, and ‘feet’. And then the cognitive aspects of the body term classifiers are investigated. In brief, body terms' classifier usages are founded on conceptual metonymy and metaphor mechanisms. The specific types of the mechanisms used in the process are part-whole metonymy, container-content metonymy, instrument-function metonymy, structural metaphor, image metaphor, and metonymy and metaphor's complex. In the presence of body terms' classifier usages, Korean and Chinese present different aspects, but the roles of universal cognitive mechanisms are the same.
