Fanqie (Chinese: 反切; pinyin: fǎnqiè; lit. 'reverse cut') is a method in traditional Chinese lexicography to indicate the pronunciation of a monosyllabic...

preceding system of Old Chinese phonology (early 1st millennium BC). The fanqie method used to indicate pronunciation in these dictionaries, though an improvement...

Until the 20th century, 溪 was pronounced [t͡ɕʰi55], as evidenced by its fanqie reading (苦奚切). This archaic pronunciation of 溪 gives rise to the spelling...

Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin fānqié chǎo dàn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization fāan kèh cháau dáan...

pronunciation of characters was transmitted via rime dictionaries. These used the fanqie (反切; 'reverse cut') method, where each entry lists a common character with...

likely via the Philippines or Macau, in the 1500s. It was given the name 番茄 fānqié (foreign eggplant), as the Chinese named many foodstuffs introduced from...

foreign languages, the Tangut fanqie makes distinctions among the rhymes in a systematic and very precise manner. Due to the fǎnqiè, we now have a good understanding...

Hǔnqiè 混切, or "mixed fǎnqiè", specifies Chinese characters where there is inconsistent evidence about whether the initial of the Middle Chinese reader...

These dictionaries specify the pronunciations of characters using the fanqie method, giving a pair of characters indicating the onset and remainder of...

dynasty. The book was a guide to proper reading of classical texts, using the fanqie method to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. The Qieyun and...