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This study aims to consider Korean and Chinese person expressions based on the theories of language typology by focusing on the person category. In the natural languages, personal pronouns are used to indicate person, but other noun expressions can also be used to point to person in the sentences in many cases. Under the perspective of language typology, these two kinds of person expressions can be examined in one category. In this situation, whether the personal pronouns and noun expressions have the same grammatical functions and whether they have the same typological universals are the mainly questions. If two questions are proved, the noun expressions can be regarded as a verbal existence. For this purpose, the typological approach is proceeded after the noun expressions of Korean and Chinese are organized and classified in this study.