Timeline for Semantic Puns and Alternative Hanzi
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 7:13 | answer | added | Alan Chin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 7:56 | answer | added | Ding-Yi Chen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | Seralt | ...I should add though, that my lack of Chinese proficiency severely limits my ability to research this topic. Therefore, if it can be shown that 蘇/甦 and 天/靝 are indeed products of 則天文字, I'll happily accept that as an answer. | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 22:50 | comment | added | Seralt | I didn't even know about the Chinese characters of Empress Wu, so thanks for the lead! However, based on what I've been able to find on 蘇/甦 and 天/靝, these pairs have history independent of 武則天's influence. (Although, I'd definitely include "empress Wu pairs" like 照/曌.) | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 21:54 | comment | added | meireikei | Do you know if the pun-hanzis are from different origins - not only those hanzis created by 武则天 ? | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 21:37 | comment | added | Seralt | I guess 甭 fits the description of "semantic pun", but it lacks a "twin". I suppose I should add in my original question, that I've already consulted the resources provided from here. | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 21:23 | comment | added | meireikei | would 甭 fall into the same category? | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 20:26 | comment | added | NS.X. | Great question! I am curious to know the answer too. As a native speaker I have never been able to internalize the pronunciations for those characters, especially 甦. Every time I encounter one of those characters, I have to think for a second before reading out. It's not a familiarity issue because I don't have problem with other rare non-radical-phonetic characters that have radical with a strong phonetic 'hint'. I think there's something fundamentally incoherent within the composition of those characters. | |
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