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.
Navigation
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The sources
The main sources are
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
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Mandarin
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Japanese
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Korean
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Cantonese
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Vietnamese
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Radical
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75.4
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Karlgren
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Four Corner Code
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5090.6
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Wieger
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