Book chapter
A Question in the Final Systems of Míng-Time Guānhuà
Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History, p.173
Hong Kong University Press, 1
06/18/2022
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2rcnf4p.15
Abstract
The fifteenth-century Korean sinologist Sin Sukchu申叔舟 (1417–1475) recorded in a specially modified version of the Han’gûl alphabet two different types of pronunciation for the early Míng 明 koiné, Guānhuà 官話. One of these was known as the zhèngyīn 正音 (“Standard Readings”; SR) and is probably to be attributed to one Ní Qiān 倪謙 (1415–1479), a Chinese official from Nanking who spent time in Korea in 1450.¹ The readings elicited from Ní Qiān by Sin Sukchu were based on the government-sponsored dictionary, Hóngwǔ zhèngyùn 洪武正韻, published in 1375. They probably represent the formal reading pronunciation of that time.
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- Title: Subtitle
- A Question in the Final Systems of Míng-Time Guānhuà
- Creators
- W. South Coblin
- Contributors
- Richard VanNess Simmons (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History, p.173
- Edition
- 1
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv2rcnf4p.15
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/18/2022
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Record Identifier
- 9984275060302771
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