> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:15:32PM -0500, Trebor Jung wrote:
>
> > "Ah. The name looked Japanese to me, so I assumed that it was."
> >
> > I don't see how that would seem to be Japanese. I've never seen <hy> in
> > romaji, and I've looked at a few TY Japanese sites.
>
> I jumped on to
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html, clicked
> the link to enter romaji, and typed "hyou". It came up with 8-10
> different kanji glossed as "hyou" right off the bat.
>
> Now, that's not the native pre-Chinese-influence phonology at work;
> those would be borrowing from some point in the past centuries from
> Chinese, I imagine.