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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font size="3">Hello to all of you.</font><div><font size="3"><br></font><div><font size="3">Has anyone come across a <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Chinese (?)”
character consisting of </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 바탕, serif;">禾</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">+</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 바탕, serif;">蜀</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">, not to be found in any Chinese or Korean dictionary in my library. From the context I know that it must mean "sorghum".</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">One possibility coming to my mind is that it was made up on the base of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sichuan
sorghum <i>shushu</i> </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 바탕, serif;">蜀黍</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">, </font></span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3">Kor. </font><i><font size="3">choksŏ ,</font></i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><font size="3">but
this is a mere guess. </font></span><i><br></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3">Any help appreciated...</font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3">Best,</font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="3">Werner</font></span></div></div> </div></body>
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