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Re:Cantonese Font with Pronunciation by hangonhn on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:09PM (#35868115)
Did it get more numerous with the adoption of simplified characters?
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Re:Cantonese Font with Pronunciation by akavi on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:52PM (#35868506)
I'm not sure, but I believe that most, if not all, mergers from simplification were homophones.
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Re:Cantonese Font with Pronunciation by hawflakes on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:02PM (#35869391)
Yes, it did if you're not a mandarin speaker. The simplification process was biased towards Mandarin and there are some words that were merged that have different pronunciations in Cantonese but not in Mandarin.
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