Menggu Ziyun
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Menggu Ziyun is a 14th-century rime dictionary of Old Mandarin Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script that was used during the Yuan dynasty. The only surviving examplar of this dictionary is an 18
Christian tombstone of Yang Wengshe, dated 1314, from Quanzhou, China. The 'Phags-pa inscription reads ꡖꡟꡃ ꡮꡦ ꡗꡃ ꡚꡞ ꡏꡟ ꡈꡓ (-ung shee yang shi mu taw), representing Chinese weng she yang shi mu dao 翁舍楊氏墓道 "tomb memorial of Yang Wengshe".
Table of 36 initials in the Menggu Ziyun
Rhyme dictionary
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A rime dictionary, rhyme dictionary, or rime book is a genre of dictionary that records pronunciations for Chinese characters by tone and rhyme, instead of by graphical means like their radicals. The
Menggu Ziyun
…Menggu Ziyun (Chinese: 蒙古字韻; lit. 'Mongol-script rime') is a 14th-century rime dictionary of Old Mandarin Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script that was used during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). The only surviving examplar of this…
Copy of the Tangyun, an 8th-century edition of the Qieyun
Copy of fragments of the Wang Renxu edition of the Qieyun
Sea of Characters, level tone folio 53
Guangyun Dong Rhyme 1