Re: Pali and Chinese Characters

Dear Dennis,
I don't think you are right.Whare can you find chinese
hanzi in putonghua for ko,kho,do,dho,m in ending like
sambuddho or samsara?However, you can easily find it
in minnan language and cantonese.How many people in
china know about minnan and cantonese language?
many people in china nowadays know about roman abc,so
I can't it is a problem for them to chant or read
pali in roman alphabet.





--- "Dennis W. K. Khong" <denniskhong@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Okay, let's confine this to mandarin first. We can
> determine whether
> it is possible by first trying to map the 42
> alphabets (phonemes) in
> Pali to pinyin. From there on, we look at each sound
> in Pali and see
> whether there is a corresponding pinyin. If so, we
> can look up a
> chinese dictionary to select an appropriate
> letter/word to represent
> that sound. Once the whole process is completed, if
> it can be
> completed, we will have a table to convert pali
> sounds to chinese
> characters, which was the original question to this
> post.
>
> Is my methodology right?
>
> Dennis
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Teng Kee
> <ongtkee@...> wrote:
> > No,we can't use these books at all.No mandarin
> words
> > for to,tho or hutva,tvam even we use many chinese
> > dialects together in one book.
> >
> >
> > --- "Dennis W. K. Khong" <denniskhong@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > There has been some attempts in Malaysia to do
> > > something like that. I
> > > don't have the book at hand, but I do remember a
> > > Pali chanting book
> > > with Chinese characters as a phonetic guide. The
> > > other alternative is
> > > to use pinyin
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin or
> > > the traditional
> > > zhuyin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuyin .
> However
> > > if the person can
> > > read pinyin, most likely he can also read Roman
> > > characters. Probably
> > > the Taiwanese is the only remaining group still
> > > using zhuyin as a
> > > phonetic guide. I don't know of any attempt of
> using
> > > zhuyin though.
> > >
> > > Dennis
> > >
> > > --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "junet9876"
> > > <junet9876@...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Can Pali be written using Chinese characters?
> If
> > > they can, does
> > > anyone
> > > > know where I can get the character conversions
> > > document? (Like how
> > > > we can convert between Roman characters and
> Thai
> > > characters)
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > June
>
>
>
>
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