Re: half & half ringed i

On 11/08/2001 01:16:44 PM John Jenkins wrote:

>This is from Bernhard Karlgren's *Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and
>Sino-Japanese*. He's using U+02BF (MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING) to
>mark aspiration in the initial. U+02BE (MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING)
>is a mark for the fifth and sixth tones (high and low falling).

Ah, so it's just coincidence and isn't meant to look something like a ring
around the dot on the i (new character: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH RINGED
DOT ABOVE, or LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH EYE ABOVE :-)



- Peter


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