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The Qieyun (Chinese: 切韻; pinyin: Qièyùn) is a Chinese rime dictionary that was published in 601 during the Sui dynasty. The book was a guide to proper reading of classical texts, using the fanqie method to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters.
Sources for Middle Chinese. The centre of the study of Chinese historical phonology is the Qieyun, a rime dictionary created by Lu Fayan in 601 CE as a guide to the proper reading of classic texts. The dictionary divided characters between the four tones, which were subdivided into 193 rhyme groups and then into homophone groups.
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As its first criterion for classifying syllables, the Qieyun takes the tones, of which it has four: ping, shang (here transcribed with a colon, as in pa: ), qu (here transcribed with a hyphen, as in pa- ), and ru, or even, rising, falling, and entering (“checked”) tones.
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 ...
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- 2020
Feb 6, 2024 · The Qieyun and later redactions, notably the The Qieyun (Chinese: 切韻; pinyin: Qièyùn) is a Chinese rime dictionary that was published in 601 during the Sui dynasty. The book was a guide to proper reading of classical texts, using the fanqie method to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters.
Jul 17, 2010 · Qieyun 切韻 (www.chinaknowledge.de) Literature > Confucian Classics > Lesser Learning > Qieyun. Jul 17, 2010 © Ulrich Theobald. Qieyun 切韻 "Cut rhymes" is the oldest surviving dictionary arranging characters according to pronunciation. It was written by Lu Fayan 陸法言 (fl. 601) during the Sui period 隋 (581-618).
