{"title":"A study on the variant characters in the stele inscriptions in the Later Lê Dynasty in Vietnam","authors":"Huazhen He, Yu Li, Linwei Lu","doi":"10.1177/25138502221150941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221150941","url":null,"abstract":"The study of the variant characters in the stele inscriptions in the Later Lê Dynasty (1428 CE–1789 CE) is not only a study of the dynastic history of the inheritance and variation of Sino-annamite characters, but also an essential part of the study of their spreading and history. Chinese characters in the stele inscriptions were very rich in figure. They contained many variant characters inherited from Chinese literature and those modified with Vietnamese regional characteristics. This article systematically sorts out these variant characters from a diachronic perspective to investigate their structure categories and time distribution. It also reveals the historical track of the inheritance and variation of Chinese characters at that time. Summarizing the characteristics of these variant characters is conducive to comprehensively sorting out the historical context of inheritance and variation of Chinese characters in Vietnam, showing the far-reaching influence of ancient Chinese culture on Vietnam, and systematically build all the information of the stele inscriptions in Vietnam into a searchable database for easy query and research the stele inscriptions in Vietnam.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"138 1","pages":"35 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77282191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on cursive symbols and variants in Vietnamese manuscripts","authors":"Ying Huang","doi":"10.1177/25138502231157095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502231157095","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of variants is more prominent because of the greater randomness of manuscripts. Symbolization is one of the essential characteristics of the spread and variation of Chinese characters in Vietnam. There are many types of symbols in the configuration of Vietnamese variants, and most of them are derived from cursive handwriting in China. Based on the Vietnamese symbolic variants and from the angle of combining the handwriting in calligraphy with the symbol theory in philology, the present article analyzes eight kinds of common symbols in variants in Vietnamese manuscripts and probes into their sources, hoping to encourage a preliminary discussion regarding their symbolic features’?","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"370 1","pages":"70 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74034137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ancient Vietnamese scholars’ views on Chinese characters","authors":"Duc Du Huynh","doi":"10.1177/25138502221147951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221147951","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the preface and postscript in Vietnamese Chinese dictionaries and related documents, this article comprehensively compares the similarities and differences between the ancient Chinese and Vietnamese views of Chinese characters from the perspectives of the origin of Chinese characters, the introduction of Chinese characters, the relationship between Chinese characters and Nom characters, the survival and development of Chinese characters, the variation of Chinese character forms, and the morphological and phonological values of Chinese characters. It summarizes the inheritance and variation of Chinese characters in Vietnam, and attempts to provide a new perspective for studies related to the history of the development of Vietnamese Chinese characters and the history of the spread of Chinese characters.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"124 1","pages":"22 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87910586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of Chinese influence on Vietnamese word formation","authors":"Đ. Nguyễn, Tuan Nguyen","doi":"10.1177/25138502221145444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221145444","url":null,"abstract":"In its history of development, Vietnamese language was greatly influenced by Chinese language in phonetic and lexical aspects. Although lexical studies have revealed a number of findings, our understanding of the influence of Chinese language on Vietnamese language in terms of word formation is far from complete owing to the complexity of the issue as well as different conceptualizations and research methodologies. Based on the Chinese characters and the degree of Vietnamization, we divide the elements in Vietnamese language borrowed from Chinese language at the level of word formation into four types: semi-morphemes (which only have sound with unidentified meanings); semi-free morphemes 1 (which can only be combined with Sino-Vietnamese morphemes); semi-free morphemes 2 (which can be combined with Sino-Vietnamese and pure Vietnamese morphemes); and free morphemes. On that basis, the study conducted a survey on the specific number of each type of element, thereby giving a comprehensive evaluation of the influence of Chinese language on Vietnamese language at the level of word formation, as well as hints about Vietnamese-Chinese language exposure.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"77 1","pages":"60 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81155666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A supplementary study on the Chinese writings in Pidgin English Lyrics","authors":"Daxin Nie","doi":"10.1177/25138502221147949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221147949","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese Pidgin Language has existed in the southern coastal areas of China since the 16th century and is a lingua franca of European languages, Mandarin and Chinese dialects, influenced by the class of users and the particular using occasion. Chinese people mainly rely on Chinese transcriptions to express and record this idiosyncratic dialect without regard for original foreign letters and spelling rules. This method, however, reserves the dialectal phonetic feature and writing system of sight words in an early period. Limited by the material recorded, relevant concerns about Chinese Pidgin Language have been at a standstill. Referring to the regional variations, studies on Yang King Pang English needs to be worthy of attention. By referring to the corresponding agreements of Chinese Pidgin Language extracted from earlier studies as well as the historical evidence, the present article makes a thorough correction of and supplement to all questioned Chinese transcriptions embedded in these Pidgin English Lyrics not well-known by the academic. The achievement, integrated with the existing transcriptions of these lyrics, would provide one complete glossary of Yang King Pang English in that period.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"55 1","pages":"8 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80542670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deciphering broken Chinese characters on a broken piece (#10447) of Huayanshijing stored in Korea","authors":"Kyoo-Kap Lee","doi":"10.1177/25138502221150940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221150940","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to decipher the broken Chinese characters on a fragment of Huayanshijing, #10447. All the broken characters have lost parts of the whole character fonts, and many have been severely damaged. These have made it difficult to decipher them to determine the original forms. This study deciphered the original forms by comparing the font of the broken Chinese characters with characters of similar forms from the Huayanshijing text and applying them to the sentences containing the characters in Huayanshijing.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"34 1","pages":"90 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82206731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phonetic interchange and interchangeable characters in a Tangut vocabulary","authors":"Yingxin Sun","doi":"10.1177/25138502221144766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221144766","url":null,"abstract":"The famous phenomenon of ‘phonetic interchange’ in Chinese philology also occurred in Tangut scriptures. In various manuscripts and xylographs, the author or transcriber may have borrowed a phonetically related character to substitute for the original. The borrowings are not only absolute homonyms, but also show some slight distinctions in their initials or finals. In a recently discovered Tangut philological work, there is a vocabulary of over 2000 interchangeable characters enumerated in homonymic groups, which presents phonetic distinctions between Tangut oral speech and the orthodox rhyme dictionaries, and contributes to the identification of knotty characters encountered in deciphering the Tangut Buddhist texts.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87452726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese character variants in Vietnam’s Buddhist texts: A case study of the book Chư phẩm kinh (諸品經)","authors":"K. Trịnh, Văn-Thanh Nguyễn, Tú-Mai Thị Nguyễn","doi":"10.1177/25138502221145438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221145438","url":null,"abstract":"This article is focused on the statistical data and analyses of 187 Chinese character variants found in the book Chư phẩm kinh (諸品經, Various Essential Segments of the Scripture), which was collected and compiled by Zen Master Pháp Loa (1284–1330) and revised then by Zen Master Huyền Quang (1254–1334) to be handed down for posterity. Of those Chinese character variants, we have analysed 96 that are found only in Vietnam, proving that the number of character variants created intra-nationally in Vietnam is greater than that of the international variants introduced from China.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"22 1","pages":"46 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81879620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Qualitative Study of the Tici of \u2028Dongba He Nianheng in Baidi","authors":"Xiaoli Bai, Mengxin Pi","doi":"10.1177/25138502221135004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221135004","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in Dongba secular documents whereby scholars can carry out ground-breaking research on Dongba script and Naxi culture. The Dongba Tici is of great significance in Dongba secular written records, which play an invaluable role in daily life for Naxi people. In previous studies of the Dongba Tici, the different types of the Dongba Tici have been found to be written for people, for institutions, for meetings, for the commemoration of tours and journeys, and so on. So far, however, there remains a paucity of research on the Dongba Tici, which was written by Dongba religious priests for themselves. In this study, we draw on a linguistic approach to exploring Baidi He Nianheng’s Tici written in Dongba script. The results indicate that He Nianheng, one of the Dongba religious priests in Baidi, showed responsibility for being a Dongba shaman in his later years and conveyed his deep feelings about a sense of living on borrowed time in his Dongba Tici. In addition, we also find a new Dongba pictogram and several unusual variants of Dongba pictograms, which can be added to the reference books of Dongba script.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"104 1","pages":"253 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78748972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the use of a local Chinese \u2028character textbook (Learn Chinese \u2028Characters Easily) for teaching at the Confucius classroom of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Nigeria","authors":"Somtochukwu Daniel Okoye, E. Edeh, Yincang Zhang","doi":"10.1177/25138502221135378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502221135378","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated the use of the local Chinese character textbook Learn Chinese Characters Easily by Chinese language (second language) learners at the Confucius classroom of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Nigeria. A sample of 50 students out of the 65 selected from the Confucius classroom were randomly investigated for their opinions on their use of the local Chinese character textbook. The findings indicated that the use of the local Chinese character textbook has aroused students’ interest in Chinese characters through their learning experiences; that the organization and content of the textbook were found to be moderately satisfactory; and that the students admitted that the textbook has helped them improve their Chinese proficiency. Overall, the local textbook is essential for the users but needs improvement in the few areas indicated by the research. Finally, the study offered some innovative suggestions for optimizing the textbook and improving learners’ experiences and learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"281 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76093503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}