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Most Common 同音词 (Word-Homophones) in Mandarin
The following is a list I’ve compiled of the most common word-homophones* in Chinese. This may be useful for your general study, since there are so many homophones in Mandarin. *I say “word-homophones” deliberately, since I’m referring specifically to 同音词 (homophones made up of multi-character words), not 同音字 (“character-homophones”, when two characters have the same [...]
Variant Pronunciations in Mandarin
I’ve been editing Mandarin entries on Wiktionary for about a year now, and one unexpected phenomenon I have come across is, for the lack of a better term, “variant pronunciations”. Mandarin as we know it has been heavily standardised over the years, and we have come to think of “readings” of Chinese characters or word [...]
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