Talk:陽

Mandarin readings

Can it be explained in which contexts the two Mandarin readings are used? 24.29.238.60 18:13, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Muddled explanation of 陽 "Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laŋ): semantic 阜 (“hill”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ, “bright, sunny”) – sunny side of mountain."

The explanation given for 陽 is:

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laŋ): semantic 阜 (“hill”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ, “bright, sunny”) – sunny side of mountain.

The attempt here is to piggy-back a huiyizi interpretation onto a phono-semantic interpretation (which has roots in Shuowen: '从⻖昜聲'). If you want to say it's a huiyizi, that's different from saying it's a xingshengzi. It could be both at the same time, but those two explanations should be separate from each other. Although I personally don't believe that the huiyizi interpretation has much to do with the glyph's actual origin, I have no doubt that the huiyizi interpretation is probably a widely believed interpretation of the character. Because the huiyizi interpretation was deleted at 茸, I am deleting it here too. Let me know if you have any thoughts. I believe both interpretations should be kept, but I'm just going by how things went down on the 茸 page. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 04:39, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: We have to look at these case by case. In this case, it seems to be both phono-semantic and ideographic. See this. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:50, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Makes sense, thanks!