Index To The Basic Vocabulary Of Hakka

Author : D. MacIver
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781506126982
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book A Hakka Index written by D. MacIver and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There From the Author's NOTE . Of the two sets of figures attached to each character, the upper set gives the number of the character in Giles; the lower gives the page in Williams, where the character may be found. When the sound of any Chinese character has been ascertained from this Radical Index, the meaning may be found by referring to those two Dictionaries, or to the Hakka Dictionary, which is arranged in alphabetic order. When more sounds than one are given for a character, the first is the one usually to be preferred. When the sounds given differ only in tone, the deflected (tset), i.e., Rising or Departing tone gives the proper sound of the character; while the Even (phîn) tone gives the colloquial (c.) sound. The tones are indicated as follows: - The Upper Even (Shòng phîn) is not accented, Fu. The Lower Even (Ha phîn) has got the circumflex accent, Fû. The Rising tone (Shòng shang), has the acute accent, Fú. The Departing tone (Khí shang) has the grave accent, Fù. The Upper Entering (Shòng nyíp) tone has the acute accent, Fúk. The Lower Entering (Hà nyíp), is not accented, Fuk. The fact that the entering tones in Hakka always end in k, p, or t, prevents confusion with the Upper Even or with the Rising tone. The system of 'Romanising' is that now in general use in Southern China. For further remarks see the "Introduction to the Hakka Dictionary."