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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ

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Intellectual history @SinologieFAU & @mpilhlt.bsky.social 曩昔 @ceao_uam. PhD @tohoku_univ & @UniHeidelberg. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · Nov 12

Since I've been added to that amazing starter pack "intellectual history", I have a fresh publication to celebrate it: My chapter exploring the reception of the Mahābhārata in Japan and China. Alas it's not in open access, but lmk if you would like a copy!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

East Asian Uses of Indian Epic Literature: Refractions of the Mahabharata in Japan and China, Late Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Century (8.) - The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought

The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought - November 2024

www.cambridge.org

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 3h

Yo, this is cool.

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Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely.
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
@kebuhcah.bsky.social

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 4h

Apparently 萬象 is not Mandarin-based, but comes via Vietnam! And became common in the PRC in the 1950s

zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/189999667?...

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Apparently 萬象 is not Mandarin-based, but comes via Vietnam! And became common in the PRC in the 1950s

zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/189999667?...

zhuanlan.zhihu.com

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Vientiane itself might mean 'Sandalwood City' or 'Moon City'; wīang being from Mon-Khmer, and -chan being from Sanskrit, either candana চন্দন ('sandalwood') or candra চন্দ্র ('moon').

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The capital of Laos, Vientiane (Wīang chan ວຽງຈັນ), has two beautiful Chinese names😀:
永珍 Wing5 Zan1 ('perpetual treasure') is Canto-based; the Mandarin phonetics are way off
萬象 Wanxiang ('myriad elephants'): the Mandarin-based PRC name is a semantic match for the Lan Xang ລ້ານຊ້າງ ('million elephants')

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 3d

鈤 (rì) would’ve been a good choice if IUPAC ever named a chemical element Japanium. But a team at Japan's RIKEN research institute discovered a synthetic element in 2004 and proposed Nihonium in honor of Japan. Nihonium was officially approved by IUPAC in 2016 and is translated as 鉨 (nǐ) in Chinese

Image from 元素の漢字bot
https://x.com/gensokanji_bot/status/1105798503169646592?s=46&t=lm0n2CHCuZzzxNue_Kz8JQ

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 3d

Every element has [at least one] name in Chinese that is a single character, and new elements require the selection/creation of a new character.

Because of Standard Chinese phonology and the large number of elements, there are now homophones, e.g. Se 硒 is pronounced the same as Sn 锡.

Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 3d

There are two ways to write 'Germanium' in Chinese. The older one is 鈤, composed of 'metal' 金 and ri 日, short for Ri'erman 日耳曼 ('Germanic'). The newer way of translating it doesn't show the national/ethnic link and has 者 (zhe) as phonetic element for Ger-: 鍺 /

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鈤 was ambiguous; it was also used as the sinograph for radium, which is now written as 鐳.

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multiburst.bsky.social @multiburst.bsky.social · 4d

Arrived🥰

And beside the poster, there was also a additional postcard included.

A record with a cambodian singer on a tatami mat.

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 4d

So our Chinese students call Zhang Junmai 張君勱, one of the most important constitutionalists of the Republic of China, Zhang Jun Shaomai 張君燒賣. 🤣 Since Zhang was from Jiading 嘉定, I am sure he was (like me) a fan of Shanghai-style Siu Mai with sticky rice filling! 😋

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 4d

While 鳥語 "bird speech" is considered a derogatory term when referring to speech or language of foreign peoples and southern Sinetic languages, the idiom 鳥語花香* (birds are singing and flowers are fragrant) is used to describe beautiful scenery, especially in spring

*first used by Song poet 呂本中

成語：鳥語花香
典源：宋．呂本中〈庵居〉詩（據《東萊先生詩集》卷三引）
鳥語花香變夕陰，稍閑復恐病相尋。
正應獨有江山分，素自都無廊廟心。
堂上老親雙白髪，門前稚子舊青衿。
兒曹不會庵居意，古澗寒泉疑至今。
https://dict.idioms.moe.edu.tw/idiomView.jsp?ID=78609&q=1&webMd=2&la=0

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 4d

In 1722 黃叔璥 Huang Shujing, a Mandarin-speaking Qing official, arrived Taiwan where he spent 2 years. He recorded in 臺海使槎錄 “Records from the mission to Taiwan and its Strait” (1736) how the language spoken by Taiwanese was totally unintelligible—like barbarian gibberish and birds talking (鴃舌鳥語，全不可曉)

臺海使槎錄·卷一~卷二
by （清）黃叔璥
https://archive.org/details/06044602.cn/page/n127/mode/1up

Taiwanese Hokkien
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Hokkien

臺灣話
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E8%A9%B1

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Link: qsyj.ruc.edu.cn/CN/article/d...

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Vor allem in Bezug auf die Stellung des Kaisers, Vorstellungen einer ungebrochenen Kaiserlinie und so weiter.

Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 5d

Kurz gesagt geht es darum, daß traditionellerweise betont wird, wie die späte Qing-zeitliche Verfassung die japanische Verfassung übernommen hat; dieser Artikel versucht ergänzend, einheimische Traditionslinien herauszuarbeiten.

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"...Dieser Artikel verortet die Grundlinien der Kaiserlichen Verfassung von 1908 einerseits im traditionellen Ritualsystem, ... . Andererseits werden ... die Unterschiede zwischen der (Qing-Verfassung, der Meiji-Verfassung sowie des Koreanischen Verfassungsdokuments herausgearbeitet."

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新文章頗有趣
李富鹏，「欽定憲法大綱」的禮儀淵源, 清史研究 5 (2025): 131-44.

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 10d

The “original” character (本字) for tháu in Hokkien/Taiwanese and tau2 in Cantonese is likely 㪗 which means “to open” (漢典/集韻：他口切，展也)

Interestingly, 㪗氣/敨氣 in Cantonese “tau2 hei3” means “to breathe” while in Hokkien “tháu-khuì” means “to to vent one's feelings; to get something off one’s chest”

廣州話正音字典
①呼吸；喘息：㪗氣（呼吸；喘息）．有氣冇掟㪗（連喘息的地方都沒有，比喻太忙）。②休息；歇：㪗下先（先歇一下）．早㪗（早點休息；晚安）．㪗工（工休）．㪗涼（乘涼）
P.249 #3410
①把包着或捲着的東西打開。②〈方〉同「唞」
https://jyut.net/query?q=%E3%AA%97

教育部台語常用辭典
敨氣 tháu-khuì
釋義：［動詞］情緒得以發洩。
https://sutian.moe.edu.tw/zh-hant/su/8446/

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Oops, Cantonese at its best again 😅. That meaning was not intended… 🫣

Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 10d

Sinograph and Hokkien/Taiwanese word of the day: tháu 敨, ‘to open’ 😍, often also written 透. Apparently it’s cognate to Cantonese tau2, meaning ‘to breathe; to rest’ and mostly written 唞.
早唞啦大家！

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Our trilogy with @ivansablin.bsky.social is close to completion … stay tuned 😎

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Ivan Sablin @ivansablin.bsky.social · 12d

Coming soon @egasmb.bsky.social www.routledge.com/From-Empire-...

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 15d

Speaking of which, here is a sign in Hong Kong using the variant character 噐 (器 Jyutping: hei3)

港九電噐工程電業噐材職工會
H.K. & KLN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & APPLIANCES TRADE WORKERS UNION

I love how 噐 is used here, perhaps to emphasize the workers 職工

港九電噐工程電業噐材職工會
H.K. & KLN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & APPLIANCES TRADE WORKERS UNION

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