U+1842, ᡂ
MONGOLIAN LETTER CHI

[U+1841]
Mongolian
[U+1843]

Mongolian edit

Etymology edit

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]

Letter edit

(č̭)

  1. (China) Used only in ᡂᠢ (č̭i) to transliterate the Mandarin syllables chī, chí, chǐ and chì.

Forms edit

Initial form Medial form Final form
ᡂ᠊ ᠊ᡂ᠊ ᠊ᡂ

References edit

  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