I've got this horrible scan from《旅行雜志》1945年第7期，第8頁 and I'm trying to make out the characters:
What I've got so far:
幼儿为「么？」
Any idea what the missing character is?
A logical answer would be: 兒, but it doesn't really look like that.
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1please show the whole sentence or paragraph. Such little information is not difficult even to natives :)– Toosky HierotMar 7, 2019 at 9:44
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@TooskyHierot That's the whole sentence. The article is just filled with short bursts of info like: 夫妻名为「两口子」& 乡人称妻为「屋里」。If you really want to see the full section, it's here: i.stack.imgur.com/0jnLL.png - but I don't think it's going to help much with answering this question because like I mentioned, it's a really horrible scan.– Mou某 ♦Mar 7, 2019 at 9:51
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I feel it like 幼敘為「幺〇」– Toosky HierotMar 7, 2019 at 9:58
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Sometimes 么 is used as an alternative form of 幺, which means youngest.– KholkholMar 8, 2019 at 7:55
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It is a list of 四川話 (Sichuan dialect) terms, I suppose it showed other provinces' visitors some basic terms in Sichuan dialect
It includes :
夫妻為 「兩口子」(husband and wife is "兩口子")
最小兒女為「么兒」(smallest child is "么兒")
小妹妺為「么妺」; 「么姑娘」(youngest sister is "么妺" ; "么姑娘"
小弟弟為「么兄弟」(youngest brother is "么兄弟")
The one sentence you are asking is:
幼叔為「么叔」(youngest uncle is "么叔" )
The Chinese 「 mark below 为 bent left instead of bent right, because the text was written in vertical right to left Chinese style.
I bet Sichuan dialect speakers can guess the missing characters better than Mandarin speakers. I couldn't figure out 「屋里」 in 男人稱妻人為「屋里」(men call their wives as "屋里")