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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear all,<br><br>this is an article (in Chinese) about the question whether our obscure character is sorghum or maize. The author comes to the conclusion that it should be sorghum. <br><br><a href="http://www.cqvip.com/Read/Read.aspx?id=32436962" target="_blank">http://www.cqvip.com/Read/Read.aspx?id=32436962</a><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Barbara Wall<br><br><div><font style="" color="#3366ff">Barbara Wall<br>PhD Candidate <br>Ruhr-University Bochum<br></font></div><div> </div><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: werner_sasse@hotmail.com<br>To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 01:28:03 +0000<br>Subject: [KS] Obscure Chinese character<br><br>
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<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 style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">“Chinese (?)”
character consisting of </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:바탕, serif;">禾</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">+</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:바탕, serif;">蜀</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">, 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 style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">One possibility coming to my mind is that it was made up on the base of </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">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 style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Kor. </font><i><font size="3">choksŏ ,</font></i><span style="line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">but
this is a mere guess. </font></span><i><br></i></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Any help appreciated...</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Best,</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Werner</font></span></div></div> </div></div> </div></body>
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