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Middle Chinese. Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions. The Swedish linguist Bernhard Karlgren believed that the dictionary recorded a speech standard ...
Abstract. This chapter introduces the phonological structure of Qieyun 切韵 ‘Segmenting Rhymes’, a rhyme dictionary of Middle Chinese (MC), its relationship with Old and Middle Chinese phonologies, and its impact on the study of the history of Chinese phonology. Qieyun depicts the literary pronunciation system in Luoyang洛阳 and Nanjing ...
Apr 25, 2024 · A rime dictionary, rhyme dictionary, or rime book is an ancient type of Chinese dictionary that collates characters by tone and rhyme, instead of by radical. The most important rime dictionary tradition began with the Qieyun (601), which codified correct pronunciations for reading the classics and writing poetry by combining the reading traditions of north and south China.
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Jun 9, 2020 · Summary. Middle Chinese phonology is mainly based on the information from the phonological system of the Qièyùn 切韻, a rhyme dictionary compiled in 601. The literary standard represented by the Qièyùn and its later revisions served as the rhyming standard for centuries, even up until modern times. The phonological system of the Qièyùn ...
- Zhongwei Shen
- 2020
struction of either Early Middle Chinese (EMC) of the Qieyun or late Middle Chinese (LMC) of the rhyme ta-bles, with abundant arguments and much marshalling of material evidence (1970, 1970-71, 1984). This conclu-sion, which he ignores, undermines his basic assumption, following Karlgren, that palatalization was the defining
The Yunjing (c. 1150 AD) is the oldest of the so-called rime tables, which provide a more detailed phonological analysis of the system contained in the Qieyun.The Yunjing was created centuries after the Qieyun, and the authors of the Yunjing were attempting to interpret a phonological system that differed in significant ways from that of their own Late Middle Chinese (LMC) dialect.
Middle Chinese phonology, as a period of the Chinese language, also has its variants in time and space. It has been proposed that Middle Chinese should be further divided into two periods: Early Middle Chinese and Late Middle Chinese. The former is represented by the Qièyùn 切韻 and the latter by early rhyme tables such as the Yùnjìng 韻鏡.
