[KS] Re: 'Memoir' defames Korean culture

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Morgan good to see your still kicking

Morohashi (Japanese - Chinese dictionary 13 vols) vol 7 pp 6969-6970 has
an entry for Hun Hsueh Er which appears to be derogatory (I can't be
sure of the Japanese).  At the end of the definition it lists Tsa Chung
Er as a synonym (Mathews p. 972 lists this as mixed seed; half-caste;
hybrid; illegitimate child.

VR 
Pat Kirol

Morgan Clippinger wrote:
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> Dear List:
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> Japanese konketsuji has been mentioned in this thread as the origin of
> Korean honhyora.  I note that my Chinese (mainland and Taiwan)
> dictionaries--which are by no means comprehensive--have the term for
> mixed-blood child, hunxue'er or hun-hsueh-erh (honhyora), but not just
> hunxue or hun-hsueh (honhyol).  I can't find hun-hsueh (-erh) in Mathews,
> either.  Does anyone know whether Chinese borrowed the term from Japanese or
> whether the word existed in Chinese in earlier times?   If a borrowing, when
> did it come into Chinese?  Did the Chinese have the concept of hunxue?  Just
> curious.
> 
> Morgan E. Clippinger
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