[conlang_learners] khanjis in Sambahsa

[Olivier Simon]

Sellamat prients ! 
 
After a review of Japanese and Mandarin, I've considerably extended the number of Sambahsa "khanjis": 
http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/Khanjis-in-Sambahsa
 
Olivier

--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] khanjis in Sambahsa
To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 9:32 PM


Ironically, 冰 is the Simplified Chinese equivalent of 氷 (go figure), but it originated as a glyph variant. TTBOMK, 冰 is used in Taiwan only in the name of a veteran actress, and in all other contexts (as well as in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Japan) the latter character is used.


Anecdotally, it is actually physically possible to find multiple synonyms for practically every basic-enough word in Chinese (i.e. not modern inventions like "computer", and barring debates over what a word is and where semantic boundaries lie). That's thanks to dialect variation in vocabulary, all merged into the same literary standard via Qin Shihuang's unification of the script.



Eugene


2009/7/26 Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>

2009/7/25 Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com>:

>
> 赤 and 犬 both are still current, and still mean "red" and "dog" in Chinese.

Ah, I suppose I was confused because they're not the "default" words
for those meanings, as I learned them (that would be 紅 and 狗,
respectively). I didn't know that the other characters are also used.

I'm not sure whether 冰 would be understood in Japanese, though -- nor
do I know whether the Japanese 氷 is a separate character or just a
glyph variant of the Chinese one.

Cheers,
Philip
--

Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>



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