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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 ...
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
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The Qieyun ( Chinese: 切韻) 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 . The Qieyun and later redactions, notably the Guangyun, are important documentary sources used in the ...
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restitution in Late Middle Chinese (Pulleyblank 1991). The circle signals the absence of any character of the corresponding composition. The top cell indicates the characteristics of initials, which can be restituted as *p- *pʰ- *b- *m- for the Early Middle Chinese stage (i.e. the time of the Qièyùn: 7thcentury). Importantly, at the
- Michel Ferlus
- Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Jun 9, 2020 · 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.
- Zhongwei Shen
- 2020
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 ...
the Middle Chinese phonological system (“Ancient Chinese” in Karlgren’s terminology) represented in the Qièyùn rhyme dictionary of 601 CE (and other contemporary sources), which was assumed to be descended from Old Chinese; the rhymes of the Shījīng and (in principle) other pre-Qín texts, and.
