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Even when a scholar has published a book devoted to identifying rhymes within a very famous text, it is considered likely that that book will have just plain overlooked a number of rhymed passages. That's an entirely different field of study. A scholar who is competent to translate text written in Old Chinese is completely incompetent to determine whether Old Chinese text rhymes or doesn't rhyme. By inspection of text, it isn't possible even to tell the difference between text that rhymes and text that doesn't rhyme, much less to tell what the words sounded like. But the relationship of a new character to its component parts is not regular or predictable.) (Rather, the pronunciation of another character is often used as inspiration when inventing a new character. In Old Chinese, before the pronunciation divergence you mention, the form of a character is not a guide to its pronunciation.

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Since their analyses may have missed some of the rhyming passages, and since there is ongoing scholarly debate about how to reconstruct the sounds of ancient Chinese in the first place, I do not claim to have identified every instance of rhyme in the text. > The identification of the rhymes in the Chinese text requires detailed knowledge of ancient phonology that I lack, and so I have relied on published studies of rhymes in the Xunzi by other scholars. I have chosen to make them conspicuous by translating rhymed passages in Chinese with rhymed sections of English. Since the rhyming sections can easily be overlooked. I consider the presence of these rhymes a feature of the text that is sufficiently noteworth to deserve being reflected conspicuously in the translation. Both Watson and Knoblock often overlook them, as do many translations of the Xunzi into modern Chinese and Japanese and Korean.

The Xunzi contains numerous rhymed passages. > The other feature of this translation that warrants comment is the handling of rhymed lines. I'm familiar with the Chinese writing system. Replaced the emoji unicode with an image link. If we wanted to write "phallus," we could write 𓂸𓏺 with the stroke afterwards to denote that we mean the symbol, not its phonetic value.Įdit: hn cut out my emoji unicode. When this symbol is used phonetically, it represents the consonants "mt" because the ancient Egyptian word for phallus used those consonants. Phonetically, Egyptian hieroglyphs use what's called the Rebus principle. For example, 𓂓𓏺 is ka for "spirit." 𓂓𓂸 is ka for "bull." (We could also add 𓃒 to 𓂓 for "bull" in addition to or instead of 𓂸)

This symbol is used to denote maleness or strength. Determinatives are ideograms that disambiguate between several words with the same consonants but different meanings. Ancient Egyptian, much like many Semitic languages, omits the vowels in a word in writing. The most common use is probably as a determinative. This symbol has a couple of uses in writing ancient Egyptian.