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ᡁ	U+1841, ᡁ MONGOLIAN LETTER ZHI

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Coined by Mongolian politician, revolutionary and linguist Khaisan in 1917 in 《蒙漢合璧五方元音》 ("Mongolian-Han Bilingual Original Sounds of the Five Regions"), an edition of the Mandarin rime dictionary 《五方元音》 ("Original Sounds of the Five Regions") which included Mongolian transliterations of Mandarin readings.^[1]

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(China) Used only in ᡁᠢ (ži) to transliterate the Mandarin syllables zhī, zhí, zhǐ and zhì.

References[edit]

^ Wu, Jiaye (2022) “Teaching Mandarin Pronunciation to Mongolian Learners in Early Republican Period China: The Case of the Mongolian Han Original Sounds of the Five Regions”, in Nicola McLelland and Hui Zhao, editors, Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts, →ISBN

[1] Wu, Jiaye (2022) “Teaching Mandarin Pronunciation to Mongolian Learners in Early Republican Period China: The Case of the Mongolian Han Original Sounds of the Five Regions”, in Nicola McLelland and Hui Zhao, editors, Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts, →ISBN

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