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Article #5355Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Dylan Sung
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:32
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:32
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3FF9D3DF.16EC@worldnet.att.net... > LEE Sau Dan wrote: > > > The only one poly-syllabic character that I can find in Chinese dictionaries > > is +-----+ > > | +Zvg- | > > +-----+ > > > > It is meant to be pronounced as <tu2shu1guan3> +VxZm+Jko-. It was > > invented during the early 20th century, when some "scholars" wanted to > > reform the Chinese script by following the Japanese fashion. However, > > other than being listed in many Chinese dictionaries, this character > > is not used in Chinese texts. > > Just as I said several weeks ago, according to Wm. Bright: a character > invented for the purpose of asserting that a 3-syllable character > exists. Where were you when I asked for confirmation? > > No one else put a date or a Japanese connection on it, though. The character is found in Unicode, and if you've CJK fonts, then it should appear in the following listing. http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/uni/r031.htm Look for number 22293. I think the Japanese connection is that it is found in one of the Japanese encodings, though not in JIS X-0208:1997. Dyl.
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