Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o...
by akavi on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:34PM
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Note that the "phonetic" component can become incredibly strained in modern Chinese languages. Eg, take the character "俞"; in Mandarin, it's pronounced "yú". However, it's used as a phonetic component in:
1) 输: pronounced "shū"
2) 偷: pronounced "tōu"
(There are even worse examples which I can't think of in the moment)
1) 输: pronounced "shū"
2) 偷: pronounced "tōu"
(There are even worse examples which I can't think of in the moment)