Glossary of Japanese and Chinese Characters

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-168
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters

The Sogdian envoy Maniach and his namesakes in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Wang Ding
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Chinese Court

AbstractChinese sources document foreign names with phonetic transcriptions and render them in Chinese characters with close, or at least approximate, sound value. Among the Sogdians who were active at the Chinese court of the 6th century there were two persons named He Zhuruo and An Weiruo respectively. The etymology of both names can now be tentatively identified with Maniach, the name which was recorded in a Byzantine source, being that of a Sogdian envoy to Constantinople. Hence the original written form of Zhuruo and Weiruo can be restored with the spelling Moruo. The reason for these misspellings goes back to the graphic similarity of the concerned characters. Some further emendations of similar kinds are also proposed.

A study of

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (0) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
min Yi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters
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