[KS] (no longer) Obscure Chinese character

[Werner Sasse]

Dear
everyone who joined to help me. 

 

I
am grateful and now have all the information I needed

 

1)      
𥣋 is indeed 𥣋秫 chin. shushu. In pre-mod.
Kor. texts 슈슈….> 수수, and it is sorghum 2)      
Maize is 玉𥣋秫, kor. 옥슈슈> 옥수수, and when some modern dictionaries get this wrong, well, cross-checking is not a favorite sport in modern publishing business, and dictionaries are written by people who have no dirt under their fingernails.

3)      
The direction to the 漢韓大辭典-quote was important. I find it interesting that my author uses this
obscure character. The fellow seems to have been fond of reading novels. By the
way, the author was 도애 홍석모 1781-1857, and the manuscript is the 東國歲時記, a wonderful text if you like to sometimes chew on one short phrase for a full day.
Thank you all very much again, you were of great help Werner Sasse 

 

P.S.
(Frank: you were right about the late addition of
sorghum to the Chinese agriculture and the vocabulary. You were wrong about “...knowing
Werner a little, I would suppose the text is not quite of THAT recent origin”…
Look: middle of the 19th c. is for people like me almost
contemporary…. And after all, what are 150 years in “5000 years of history” … 

P.P.S. (William: The greyed out pagination for the Kangxi Zidian (康熙字典: 頁861第05 漢語大字典: 卷4頁2635第08) in 

( http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb&char=%F0%A5%A3%8B ) is funny. When
you put the mouse pointer over the grey area the following text appears: “The
character is not included in this dictionary; the location given here is its
expected location had it been included”.

(italics by me) I love that one…. Anyway, 𥣋 is not in the Kangxi Zidian, and in light of Frank’s remark, of course it is not.

 


 		 	   		  
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