fan-ch'ieh
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of fanqie.
Example Sentences
- "Another occasional appendage to Buddhist sūtras, occurring for some reason with special frequency in copies of the Chin kuang ming tsui shêng wang ching (N. 126), is what I have ventured to call a phonetic glossary. This consists of just a few words selected from the preceding text, with their fan-ch’ieh (initial plus final) pronunciation."
- "However, the most important system of Chinese spelling is the syllabic method fan ch’ieh, which gives the sound of a character by writing two other characters, the first to represent the initial and the palatalization, the second to represent the final—including the vowel—, the labialization and the tone."
- "⁴(戇), of diverse fan-ch'ieh, is given the Wu form gaq, which is still being spoken."
- "The influence of the Sanskrit alphabet is traced in the practice of fan-ch’ieh (wherein two characters are used to indicate the pronunciation of the third character) and tzu-mu (wherein thirty phonetic radicals are divided as in Sanskrit into five categories as labials, linguals, gutturals, dentals and glottals."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 反切, -