Timeline for Is there any evidence that 90% of characters are phono-semantic compounds?
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| May 24, 2018 at 12:16 | vote | accept | Lou | ||
| Feb 23, 2018 at 7:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChinese/status/966930682327924738 | ||
| Feb 21, 2018 at 23:57 | answer | added | John Frazer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 19:32 | comment | added | Tang Ho♦ | It sounds like anecdotal estimate. The actual figure might not be 90% but the fact that the majority of characters are phono-semantic compounds seems to be correct | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 1:03 | answer | added | dROOOze | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 0:31 | comment | added | Mou某♦ | Another missing citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Formation_principles Phono-semantic compounds Xu Shen (c. 100 AD) placed approximately 82% of characters into this category, while in the Kangxi Dictionary (1716 AD) the number is closer to 90%, due to the extremely productive use of this technique to extend the Chinese vocabulary.[citation needed] The Chu Nom characters of Vietnam were created using this principle. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 0:06 | history | asked | Lou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |