Saturday, October 28, 2023

MEotW: Hāmǐjíduōdùn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Do Chinese characters bypass speech to directly represent meaning?


Table 7 Semantic Versus Phonetic Aspects of Chinese Characters, p. 129, _The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy_


Table from p. 129 of the book The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, by John DeFrancis


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