Re: Question about historical Japanese kana usage.

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:39:02 +0100, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:
> Makes sense. Sort of like Pinyin and many other
> transliteration systems for Mandarin requiring 'yi'
> and 'wu' for initial [i] and [u]
Pinyin certainly does that. And you can add 'yu' for initial [y].

> So, I suspect 'yen' is somehow
> etymologically equivalent to Mandarin 'yuan' [HEn_R].
> Am I right?
It is indeed. And to the Korean "won"/"weon", which is also used as a
unit of currency. I guess they like to use circles as currency in the
Far East :)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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