Re: 'Stallion' in Japanese

Henrik writes:

>They are stallions, the former possibly being an adult,
>the latter a young one.  According to Unihan.txt, the former is
>pronounced 'fu4' in Mandarin (just like 'father'), the latter either
>'er2' or 'ni2' or 'pai4' or 'po2'.
You've exhausted my resources. The "fu4" you discuss is not included
in any dictionary I have (and I have a few). "Er2" only occurred in
one Hakka dictionary. "Bo2" *looks* like your "fu4" charcter, but is
quite in common currency as meaning "refute" or "retort", or
"variegated", but it's not the same character.

>(Maybe 'tane uma' is Japanese for something like 'stallion', but I'm
>searching for a single character word.)
"tane" means "seed"? So it's weird. The characters you've profferred
are so esoteric, that it's doubtful I could pull Japanese readings
out of them from any resource I have.

Sorry, dude,

Kou

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