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Article: The etymonic determinatives of wanq [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
- Author:
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IF ONE WERE TO COME ACROSS the character [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in a modern Chinese text, he might note that the phonetic component is immediately apparent: [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] wang. And indeed the phonetic values associated with [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and correspond neatly both in modern Mandarin and in Old Chinese reconstruction, [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] wanq
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