[Wikipedia-l] Request for classical Chinese

[Pablo Saratxaga]

Kaixo!

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:31:42PM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:

> In addition there was the old practice in Japanese of writing a
> neologism descriptively in Chinese characters, and writing the
> pronunciation (usually from English or French) right above it.

A more problematic issue would be proper nouns, like place names
or country names; while some of them (those in the area of influence
of Chinese, eg: Vietnam, Thailand, China, Mongolia, Corea, Japan, etc)
are identiqual in both Chinese and Japanese (at least in classical
writting), others are not, for example in Chinese USA is the
"beauty-country" while in Japanese it is the "rice-country";
France is in Chinese represented by the hanzi meaning "law",
while in Japanese the hanzi for "Buddha" is used instead, etc. 

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Pablo Saratxaga

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