[KS] Obscure Chinese character

[William B. McCloy]

According to another website ( http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb <http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb&char=%F0%A5%A3%8B> &char=%F0%A5%A3%8B ), apparently, this character can be found in at least two Chinese dictionaries: Kangxi Zidian  and  Hanyu Dazidian (康熙字典: 頁861第05 漢語大字典: 卷4頁2635第08).  I don’t know why the pagination is greyed out for the Kangxi Zidian.  I suspect that most or all editions must lack pagination.

 

Bill

 

From: William B. McCloy [mailto:wbmccloy at u.washington.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 8:00 AM
To: 'Korean Studies Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [KS] Obscure Chinese character

 

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

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20130507/78d1b348/attachment.html>