[KS] Obscure Chinese character

[Frank Hoffmann]

Dr. Edward D. Rockstein wrote:
> Of course, there is another view:  
> http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/maize.html


If that is "another view" also depends on the context, and within this 
particular context a few decades earlier or later hardly makes a 
difference. The point I tried to make is that maize was not known in 
China since ancient times. So, if the 汉语大字典 would be "correct" in 
giving maize as the character's meaning, then it would be a 
neologism--well, something like a regional Ming Dynasty neologism, and 
that is very recent in the context of Chinese history and the forming 
of meanings of characters). 

Frank