Re: Han character names?

[John H. Jenkins]

At 7:54 AM -0800 7/11/00, John Cowan wrote:
>Aren't there characters used on the tortoise-shell oracle records that
>are totally unknown later?  In that case, there would hardly be a
>documented pronunciation!

Yes.

>(And is anything that old in CJK Supplement B?)
>

No.  Vertical Extension B adds characters recently standardized 
(e.g., JIS X 0213, HK GCCS), fills in the nooks and crannies from CNS 
11643-1992, and adds what's needed to fully cover the Hanyu Da Zidian 
and KangXi.  Maybe they'll start on the Shuowen next and then move 
back to pre-Zhou stuff.  :-)



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