Re: Consonants as source of vowels

Henrik Theiling wrote:


> Isaac Penzev writes:
> >...
> > In Pinyin, it is 'Ribeng'. The hanzi there are U+65E5 'sun' and U+672C
> > 'foundation'.
>
> No, it's 'riben' in Mandarin.  With tones: ri4ben3.
Ah, thank you, Henrik, xiexie. This is what happens when I wuotq something
from memory and do not check up dictionaries. U+672C indeed is 'ben3',
otherwise it could not give a Japanese onyomi 'hon' - final -ng's were
completely messed. Compare U+7D05 (simplified form U+7EA2): Mandarin 'hong1'
: Japanese 'ko:'

Mea culpa,
and thanks to Philip Newton, whose info was much more accurate,
-- Yitzik