[KS] Obscure Chinese character

William B. McCloy wbmccloy at u.washington.edu
Tue May 7 11:00:21 EDT 2013


Werner,

 

It’s listed in the Unicode database “Unihan” here:  http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=258CB <http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=258CB&useutf8=true> &useutf8=true 

 

Best,

 

Bill McCloy

 

From: Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws] On Behalf Of Werner Sasse
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 6:28 PM
To: list korean studies
Subject: [KS] Obscure Chinese character

 

Hello to all of you.

 

Has anyone come across a “Chinese (?)” character consisting of 禾+蜀, not to be found in any Chinese or Korean dictionary in my library. From the context I know that it must mean "sorghum".

One possibility coming to my mind is that it was made up on the base of Sichuan sorghum shushu 蜀黍, Kor. choksŏ ,but this is a mere guess. 
Any help appreciated...

Best,

Werner

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