The latter is correlated with the fact that social relations are expressed in any language in terms of anthropocentric traditional world- view and through studying plant and zoonimic codes for the designation of social relations (biologism)1. At the same time, it is natural to do research in the context of discourse.
This research deals with zoomorphic images. Presently, interest in dealing with biomorphic studies related to living things and divided into two research directions (phytomorphic (plant images) and zoomorphic (animal images) themes) has become characteristic for the current research paradigm. Key words: linguocultural studies cultural codes semantics zoomorphism phraseological units. In addition, the study identified and systematized phraseological units with zoomorphic components, examined their linguocultural properties, discovered the role and dynamics of zoomorphic components in the units under study, characterized semantic properties of phraseological units with zoomorphic components, considered properties of phraseological units with a common seme - zoomorphism. The author presented ethnocultural functioning specifics of Chinese phraseological units with zoomorphic components and described their linguocultural properties. It presents linguocultural and semantic properties of the mentioned Chinese phraseological units with zoomorphic components. The article is devoted to the ethnocultural functioning specifics of phraseological units with zoomorphic components characterized by a high connotative potential and considered among key sources of the cultural and national heritage of the Chinese nation. Zoomorphic culture codes in the semantics of Chinese phraseological unitsĮthnocultural chinese nation zoomorphic Moscow, 119991Īl-Farabi Kazakh National University 71, al-Farabi Ave., Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, 050040