Re: Chinese/japanese Pronounciation
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 11:30 |
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On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:49:39PM +0200, Stefan 1of3 Koch wrote:
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> Kuei-jin: mixture of Chinese and Japanese. "kuei" should be Chinese for
> something like "specter"
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That must be [kw&:21]? ("Ghost" or "specter") But if used as a Japanese
borrowing, the pronunciation might be different.
> The other is "quincunx" which is Chinese.
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No idea what that might be. It doesn't look like Chinese.
T
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