Language – Tim's Random Babblings

Regarding the pronunciation of 血

by Tim LuoLanguage August 31, 2026September 5, 2026Comments are Disabled

Yesterday I came across a post in Threads (https://www.threads.com/@xin_n2025/post/DcoIurfgWDA) about the pronunciation of the Chinese character 血. As old Chinese dictionaries are hard to find nowadays and only a few of them have been digitized, I’ll use dictionaries published by Westerners to give a better picture with a slight touch on sound changes over the …

(Presumed) Initial Consonant Clusters in Old Chinese, Part 1

by Tim LuoLanguage September 17, 2024September 17, 20244 Comments

It’s a known fact that modern Chinese languages/dialects do not have initial consonant clusters like those in English or many other languages. An initial consonant cluster is like the pl- in play, gl- in glass and even str- in strong. So were there consonant clusters like those in Chinese in the past? Most scholars on …