Since the Archaic Chinese (AC)period, a good number of Chinese characters have acquired more than one reading. They are called polyphonous characters. With, them, one character may have one or more alternate readings ...Since the Archaic Chinese (AC)period, a good number of Chinese characters have acquired more than one reading. They are called polyphonous characters. With, them, one character may have one or more alternate readings besides its first or basic reading. They may differ in initials, finals, or tones. Their meaning may be identical if they remain the same word; they are different if they have become different words.展开更多
文摘Since the Archaic Chinese (AC)period, a good number of Chinese characters have acquired more than one reading. They are called polyphonous characters. With, them, one character may have one or more alternate readings besides its first or basic reading. They may differ in initials, finals, or tones. Their meaning may be identical if they remain the same word; they are different if they have become different words.
