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From: Julie Vaux
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 00:00
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I have been compiling a list of the chinese radicals and their equivalent and differing usages in other asian languages and chinese dialects/languages. I still have some gaps in my list despite going thru several dictionaries - I have a conversion table of the various transliteration schemes of cantonese into roman chars. so please let me know if you do - whether yr translit. schema is Yale StanleyLau My B-c etc These are the words I need to find - R. 8 the lid -- in a reprint of an old missionary dictionary I found a note that its called t'au or luk can anyone confirm this? r.17 the HOLE - is this KAM?KAN written with a different character in modern writing? r.22 are there cantonese words meaning the following - hong - hollow or hop - box? r.23 is HIde/conceal ni or an in cantonese? 26 - the joint/section/node - one dictionary says tsit ?! whats the modern cantonese equivalent of jie in manadarin? 27 the cliff or slope wide - han or guang in mandarin = ? 89 - mix shears yao = ?? 105 outspread or climbing legs / climb = ? if talking about calligraphy which cantonese term would you use to describe r.162 - walk "long foot" cho r.204 zhi or feng - to sew = cantonese ? r. 205 what is the cantonese term for frog toad or amphibian? Min meng or mian ??? If you can help please email jvaux@metz.une.edu.au thank you
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10dd91,ef09d3ae878707cf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10dd91,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,ef09d3ae878707cf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 110960,ef09d3ae878707cf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110960,public X-Google-Thread: f8259,ef09d3ae878707cf,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8259,public From: jvaux@metz.une.edu.au (Julie Vaux) Subject: help with cantonese words Date: 1995/12/06 Message-ID: <4a2u2k$jnq@metz.une.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 120907506 organization: University of New England, NSW, Australia keywords: my dictionary lacks these words can you help? followup-to: poster newsgroups: une.general,aus.culture.china,sci.lang,soc.culture.hongkong