83 relations: Alexander Vovin, Asuka period, Ateji, Bernhard Karlgren, Book of Sui, Book of the Later Han, Bruno Cathala, Cao Rui, Cao Wei, Chen Shou, China, Chinese character classification, Classical Chinese, Daifang Commandery, Diaeresis (diacritic), Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Emperor Jimmu, Emperor Yūryaku, Etymology, Fan Ye (historian), Forbes, Himiko, Hiragana, Historical Chinese phonology, History of Japan, Honshu, I Ching, Izanagi, Izanami, Japan, Japanese archipelago, Japanese language, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, Kana, Kanji, Kansai region, Katakana, Kofun, Kofun period, Kojiki, Kuaiji Commandery, Kuniumi, Kyushu, Lelang Commandery, Man'yōgana, Man'yōshū, Marc Miyake, Middle Chinese, Monarchy, Mora (linguistics), ..., Names of Japan, Naming taboo, Nara period, Nihon Shoki, Okinawa Prefecture, Old Chinese, Old Japanese, Palatal approximant, Phoneme, Pinyin, Polity, Prefix, Records of the Three Kingdoms, Roy Andrew Miller, Saga Prefecture, Sakurai, Nara, Seijo University, Sentence-final particle, Shinto, Sino-Japanese vocabulary, Standard Chinese, Stilt house, Subscript and superscript, Sui dynasty, Syllabary, Taiwan, Tomb Raider (2013 video game), Tomb Raider (film), Twenty-Four Histories, Wa (Japan), Yamato Province, Yayoi period, Yoshinogari site. Expand index (33 more) »
Alexander Vovin
Alexander Vladimirovich Vovin (Александр Владимирович Вовин, born 1961 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian-American linguist and philologist, currently directeur d'études at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)) in Paris, France.
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Asuka period
The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period.
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Ateji
In modern Japanese, principally refer to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters.
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Bernhard Karlgren
Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish Sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods.
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Book of Sui
The Book of Sui (Suí Shū) is the official history of the Sui dynasty.
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Book of the Later Han
The Book of the Later Han, also known as the History of the Later Han and by its Chinese name Hou Hanshu, is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE, a period known as the Later or Eastern Han.
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Bruno Cathala
Bruno Cathala (born on 23 July 1955 in Pamiers, France) is a French judge.
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Cao Rui
Cao Rui (204 or 206 – 22 January 239), courtesy name Yuanzhong, was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
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Cao Wei
Wei (220–266), also known as Cao Wei, was one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period (220–280).
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Chen Shou
Chen Shou (233–297), courtesy name Chengzuo, was an official and writer who lived during the Three Kingdoms period and Jin dynasty of China.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese character classification
All Chinese characters are logograms, but several different types can be identified, based on the manner in which they are formed or derived.
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Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese, is the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period through to the end of the Han Dynasty, a written form of Old Chinese.
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Daifang Commandery
Daifang Commandery Daifang Commandery was an one of the remnants of the Four Commanderies, which was set in the northern Korean Peninsula by the Han China between 204 and 314.
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Diaeresis (diacritic)
The diaeresis (plural: diaereses), also spelled diæresis or dieresis and also known as the tréma (also: trema) or the umlaut, is a diacritical mark that consists of two dots placed over a letter, usually a vowel.
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Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Edwin George "Ted" Pulleyblank FRSC (August 7, 1922 – April 13, 2013) was a Canadian sinologist and professor at the University of British Columbia.
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Emperor Jimmu
was the first Emperor of Japan, according to legend.
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Emperor Yūryaku
was the 21st emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-28.
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Etymology
EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".
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Fan Ye (historian)
Fan Ye (398–445 or 446), courtesy name Weizong (蔚宗), was a Chinese historian and politician of the Liu Song dynasty during the Southern and Northern dynasties period.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine.
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Himiko
was a shamaness-queen of Yamataikoku in Wa (ancient Japan).
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Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).
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Historical Chinese phonology
Historical Chinese phonology deals with reconstructing the sounds of Chinese from the past.
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History of Japan
The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times.
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Honshu
Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.
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I Ching
The I Ching,.
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Izanagi
is a deity born of the seven divine generations in Japanese mythology and Shinto, and his name in the Kojiki is roughly translated to as "he-who-invites" or Izanagi-no-mikoto.
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Izanami
In Japanese mythology, Izanami no mikoto (伊弉冉尊 or 伊邪那美命, meaning "she who invites") is a goddess of both creation and death, as well as the former wife of the god Izanagi-no-mikoto.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanese archipelago
The is the group of islands that forms the country of Japan, and extends roughly from northeast to southwest along the northeastern coast of the Eurasia mainland, washing upon the northwestern shores of the Pacific Ocean.
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Japanese language
is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
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Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai
is an archaic kana orthography system used to write Japanese during the Nara period.
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Kana
are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).
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Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.
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Kansai region
The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
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Kofun
are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Japan, constructed between the early 3rd century and the early 7th century AD.
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Kofun period
The is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538 AD, following the Yayoi period.
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Kojiki
, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.
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Kuaiji Commandery
Kuaiji Commandery (Chinese: t 郡, s 郡, p Kuàijī Jùn), formerly romanized as K‘uai-chi Commandery, was a former commandery of China in the area of Hangzhou Bay.
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Kuniumi
In Japanese mythology, the is the traditional and legendary history of the emergence of the Japanese archipelago, of islands, as narrated in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.
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Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.
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Lelang Commandery
Lelang Commandery was a commandery of the Han Dynasty which it established after conquering Wiman Joseon in 108 BC and which lasted until Goguryeo conquered it in 313.
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Man'yōgana
is an ancient writing system that employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language, and was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.
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Man'yōshū
The is the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.
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Marc Miyake
Marc Hideo Miyake (Japanese name:; born July 28, 1971) is an American linguist, who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.
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Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty (aristocracy), embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty.
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Mora (linguistics)
A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a unit in phonology that determines syllable weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing.
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Names of Japan
The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by a large number of languages.
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Naming taboo
A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons in China and neighboring nations in the ancient Chinese cultural sphere.
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Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.
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Nihon Shoki
The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.
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Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.
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Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.
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Old Japanese
is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language.
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Palatal approximant
The voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages.
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Phoneme
A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.
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Polity
A polity is any kind of political entity.
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Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
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Records of the Three Kingdoms
The Records of the Three Kingdoms is a Chinese historical text which covers the history of the late Eastern Han dynasty (c. 184–220 AD) and the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD).
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Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller (September 5, 1924 – August 22, 2014) was an American linguist notable for his advocacy of Korean and Japanese as members of the Altaic group of languages.
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Saga Prefecture
is a prefecture in the northwest part of the island of Kyushu, Japan.
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Sakurai, Nara
is a city located in Nara Prefecture, Japan.
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Seijo University
is a private university in Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sentence-final particle
Sentence-final particles, including modal particles, interactional particles, etc., are minimal lexemes (words) that occur at the end of a sentence and that do not carry referential meaning, but may relate to linguistic modality, register or other pragmatic effects.
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Shinto
or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.
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Sino-Japanese vocabulary
Sino-Japanese vocabulary or refers to that portion of the Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or has been created from elements borrowed from Chinese.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.
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Stilt house
Stilt houses are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
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Subscript and superscript
A subscript or superscript is a character (number, letter or symbol) that is (respectively) set slightly below or above the normal line of type.
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Sui dynasty
The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance.
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Syllabary
A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Tomb Raider (2013 video game)
Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix.
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Tomb Raider (film)
Tomb Raider is a 2018 action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug, with a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet.
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Twenty-Four Histories
The Twenty-Four Histories, also known as the Orthodox Histories are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century.
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Wa (Japan)
Japanese is the oldest recorded name of Japan.
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Yamato Province
was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū.
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Yayoi period
The is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC–300 AD.
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Yoshinogari site
Yoshinogari (吉野ヶ里 遺跡 Yoshinogari iseki) is the name of a large and complex Yayoi archaeological site in Yoshinogari and Kanzaki in Saga Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamatai