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Shiming

The Shiming, also known as the Yiya, is a Chinese dictionary that employed phonological glosses, and is believed have been composed c. 200 CE. Because it records the pronunciation of an Eastern Han Chinese dialect, sinologists have used the Shiming to estimate the dates of sound shifts, such as the loss of consonant clusters that took place between the…

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Chinese
逸雅
Hanyu Pinyin
Shìmíng · Yìyǎ
IPA
[ʂɨ̂mǐŋ]
Jyutping
Sik1 meng4
Literal meaning
Explanation of names · Lost Erya
Simplified Chinese
释名

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Shiming

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples56
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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Shiming

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related to Authorship and internal organization · 30
Shiming → Another Qing, Based, Bi Yuan, Bibliographies, Bodman, Book, CE, Eastern Han, Erya's, Exegetical, From, Hanoi, However, Jiaozhou, Later Han, Liu Xi, Liu Xi's, Liu Xi's Shiming, Liu Zhen, Qian Daxin
related to Format · 8
Shiming → Chinese, For, Here, Names, Rectification, The, The Chinese, The Shiming
related to Further reading · 3
Shiming → Chinese, Chinese Text Project, Retrieved
Hanyu Pinyin · 2
Shiming → Shìmíng, Yìyǎ
Literal meaning · 2
Shiming → Explanation of names, Lost Erya
Transcriptions · 2
Shiming → TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinShìmíngWade–GilesShih4-ming2IPA[ʂɨ̂mǐŋ]Yue: CantoneseYale RomanizationSīk-mèhngJyutpingSik1 meng4Southern MinTâi-lôSik-miâ, TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinYìyǎ
Chinese · 1
Shiming → 逸雅
IPA · 1
Shiming → [ʂɨ̂mǐŋ]
Jyutping · 1
Shiming → Sik1 meng4
Simplified Chinese · 1
Shiming → 释名

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chinese liu xi chapters names zhen ce han used also erya based preface author glosses believed 200 records eastern sound

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ShimingChinese逸雅1.00infobox
ShimingHanyu PinyinShìmíng1.00infobox
ShimingHanyu PinyinYìyǎ1.00infobox
ShimingIPA[ʂɨ̂mǐŋ]1.00infobox
ShimingJyutpingSik1 meng41.00infobox
ShimingLiteral meaningExplanation of names1.00infobox
ShimingLiteral meaningLost Erya1.00infobox
ShimingSimplified Chinese释名1.00infobox
ShimingTraditional Chinese釋名1.00infobox
ShimingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinShìmíngWade–GilesShih4-ming2IPA[ʂɨ̂mǐŋ]Yue: CantoneseYale RomanizationSīk-mèhngJyutpingSik1 meng4Southern MinTâi-lôSik-miâ1.00infobox
ShimingTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinYìyǎ1.00infobox
ShimingTâi-lôSik-miâ1.00infobox
ShimingWade–GilesShih4-ming21.00infobox
ShimingYale RomanizationSīk-mèhng1.00infobox
Shimingis acriticism in the late 3rd-century Records of Three Kingdoms biography of Wei Zhao0.90text

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