In this study, we examine the Cyrillic transcription and phonological representation of Chinese characters in a manuscript of Chinese-Russian dictionary from a collection at Leiden University Library. This dictionary, written in 1850, contains pronunciations of Chinese characters that are transcribed into the Cyrillic alphabet. The existing literature, however, has paid scant attention to it. We explain its philological significance and identify the phonetic values of the Cyrillic alphabet, followed by the phonetic values of the Chinese characters. In addition, we demonstrate that the Chinese pronunciations recorded in this dictionary reflected the pronunciation in a contemporary dialect spoken in North China with respect to the initials and rhymes, though it did not exactly reflect the contemporary pronunciation with respect to the tones. This is evidenced in that some phonetic features of the Chinese characters essentially correspond to those of Peking dialect recorded in Thomas Francis Wade’s Hsin Ching Lu（1859） with respect to the initials and rhymes.
雑誌名
東洋文化研究所紀要 = The memoirs of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
巻
174
ページ
126 - 166
発行年
2019-02-28
ISSN
05638089
書誌レコードID
AN00170926
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学東洋文化研究所
出版者別名
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
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