Eohan

About Eohan

Eohan is a hypertext dictionary of Chinese historical pronunciation, autogenerated from the original sources. Each character in those sources has its own entry, like the one for dōng, 'east', at the bottom of this page, giving historical pronunications and the evidence on which they are based.

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The sources

The main sources are

Zhongyuan Yinyun中原音韻Index
Yunjing韻鏡Index
Guangyun廣韻Index
Shijing詩經Index
Grammata Serica RecensaGSRIndex

The historical pronunciation was autogenerated from these sources using the systems of Bernard Karlgren, Edwin Pulleyblank and William Baxter. However, the pronunciations given can differ from those actually reconstructed by Karlgren, Pulleyblank and Baxter for a number of reasons and should not be cited as their work.

Sample entry

Dialects Sinoxenic
Mandarin
dōng
Japanese
tou
Korean
tong
Cantonese
dung1
Vietnamese
hốc
đông
Graphical Phonetic
Radical 75.4 Karlgren
1146
Four Corner Code 5090.6 Wieger
405
Pulleyblank Baxter Karlgren Sources
Early Mandarin
tuŋ
Zhongyuan
Yinyun
Late Middle Chinese
tǝwŋ
Yunjing
Early Middle Chinese
towŋ
tuwng
tung1
Guangyun
Old Chinese
[kj]áŋɥ
[t]ong
tung1
Shijing
GSR