User talk:Wyang/Archive3

{{ja-new}}

Hi Frank,

Are you interested in making enhancements to the accelerated {{ja-new}}? It would be great if you could add alt forms, synonyms, antonyms, derivations, more PoS and categorisations (by kana?) similar to {{zh-new}}. suru-verbs and na-adjectives would be nice to have -moved from {{ja new}}. It must be too much work but you are the only one who could be interested and could do it. Please consider, maybe long-term.

There are outstanding things in the Russian pron. and Hindi, Lao translit. modules. I'm just giving you my wish list, which you can ignore, of course. :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

I've converted {{ja-new}} to Lua and expanded it. Russian pron., Burmese translit. modules fixed. Not sure about the errors in Hindi translit module; having someone explain what rules these failed ones are illustrating would be great. Similarly for the Lao one. Wyang (talk) 09:25, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your help. I will definitely use this template. Do you think {{ja-pron}} could be included? I can't help with Lao but I'll address the rules for Hindi. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:48, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Frank, could you add multiple parts of speech, please? For example, I'd like to make noun and suru-verb for 性的虐待 in one go. Maybe I missed something but I don't understand how to make suru-verbs (even for one PoS) from the documentation. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:56, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Another thing that's not working quite well is terms with mixed scripts, such as 孫の手 --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:16, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

{{ja-pron}} included. Suru-verb can be made by having "s" or "suru" as the 2nd parameter, and include an extra 4th parameter for the other definition (diff). Non-pure kanji titles should be handled with <>, e.g. diff. Wyang (talk) 00:02, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:07, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Question about Template:zh-forms

I've noticed that, in the past few days, the definition section (beige/light tan box) that appears when invoking Template:zh-forms isn't showing any definition information but just a simple dash. I see that you edited Module:zh-forms on Jan. 20 and was just curious if this change was intentional. Cheers! Bumm13 (talk) 01:23, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that change was intentional. I think definitions should only be provided at the "Definitions" section for character entries (e.g. 著), so I disabled it. Wyang (talk) 02:45, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

"subst:User:Wyang/test"

It looks like Wyangbot unintentionally left behind some broken(?) text a couple of times. —umbreon126 05:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. Wyang (talk) 05:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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epulis

noIPA+MENTION-ises=V.RARE?

You may have noticed that people tend to ignore you. The reason for this is that your English (if it is English at all) is horrible and people can’t be bothered with trying to figure out what you’re on about. We also speak other languages here. Perhaps you could try to learn another language such as French or Spanish, and if you learn to write it correctly, we will be able to understand you. —Stephen (Talk) 05:30, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

I think you are being unfair. This is more intelligible than some of the things posted on WT:TRREQ to have them translated into Sanskrit. Also, we might be speaking with User:Sven70. — Keφr 10:00, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Definitely Sven70. Still, the error does illustrate the point: cryptic strings of abbreviated half-words are unreadable to the point of being unrecognizable. It's sad, but sheer force of will alone isn't enough to communicate in a text-based medium like this. I know it's intensely frustrating for an intelligent, literate, articulate man like him to be unable to communicate, but he needs to realize that this isn't working- and not because anyone hates disabled people, or is out to get him. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:06, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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I'm sorry to know that you suffer from RSI. I know it can be very painful at times, and typing would be something that aggravates your condition (you would undoubtedly know this better than me, being an MD yourself). That said, please try to make your posts as intelligible as possible when you write, as people prefer and are used to reading grammatical sentences, not unintelligible acronymic idiolects. I couldn't fully make out the meaning of your post above either. Other alternatives to typing, such as Voice Finger, may be helpful if you find typing too difficult. Wyang (talk) 11:24, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

UNEDED2NOTH= [=ISHORT4'IS'[FR.FLE,ISH/BRABANS:

Based on other websites and my own experience, the plural of "epulis" is "epulides" NOT "epulises"

   You are correct. Epulises exists but it’s very rare. — Ungoliant (falai) 17:18, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

正BUTWASNTPUTI/ENTRY=SHAME[ASUSEFLINFO+IPA=lakin[i/althosentrys-ta4reply+mandrinprogres:)

Sorry but I can't fully make sense out of your reply. Wyang (talk) 23:03, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

furthrex 9:20, 29 January 2015 Vahagn Petrosyan (Talk | contribs) blocked 163.32.124.120 (Talk) with an expiry time of 3 days (anonymous users only, account creation disabled) (Adding nonsense/gibberish)+以后老醉’加了半年的《usualsuspcts，adstephn【‘knukltypr'-patern 那ow=挑衅以后blokme,knowin没有人会招呼【wo有办法小数量的qualityedits不重要，v。sadinded【你很知道有那么多gaps，blockin人=解决法，不是？【那个亚美尼亚的admin会开’犹太人的‘开玩笑，repulsive：（【我都有办法找得到哪些讨厌的冒犯性的edits-sv

我理解你的情况，但是我还是希望你能够用正常的、非简写的段落。我读你的回复都非常吃力。Wyang (talk) 10:45, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

我懂你的要求，但请明白我也有无奈-我现在用图书馆的电脑，没办法说话，也没有dragon自然说话‘专业的输入法-我刚发现到g-py在他们的机器【高雄人’怕外国人‘所以很难会找到本地的会帮助我，还有我中文有限。。【你语言比较compact，那可能会是帮助。。感谢你的努力，也为理过我：）！

没有关系。Wyang (talk) 03:49, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

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See User talk:Wjcd#行政員以及管理員--GZWDer (talk) 15:17, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Wyang (talk) 22:23, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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1) I'm sure there are resources for that. 2) Billions would instantaneously become illiterate. Wyang (talk) 07:19, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

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It could be mildly offensive or non-offensive, depending on how it is said. I don't know what you mean in the last part. Wyang (talk) 00:09, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

wobujiaobendide‘smaleyes。。

搁tAIYULIMIANDEyisi?

In case you hadn't noticed...

Your "rewrite" to Module:zh-usex seems to have gone "rewrong"... Chuck Entz (talk) 14:50, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Rethanks, refixed now. Wyang (talk) 00:09, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

好玩 vs 囟腦門

Hi. I couldn't work out why the older entry 好玩 lists the hanzi for the erhua entry in the pronunciation box, while the entry I just created 囟腦門 doesn't. I followed the same template/formatting. Any ideas? ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:14, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Oh, that's weird, it seems to be working now. Thanks anyway. ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

蜱

Could I get your help to harmonise the Mandarin and Cantonese readings into the Chinese reading, when you have the time? Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:59, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, but it seems to be already done by Anatoli. Wyang (talk) 07:27, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

抑是

According to Wenlin, this can also mean "or" in literary Chinese. Do you think that's correct? ---> Tooironic (talk) 22:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that's right. Wyang (talk) 07:28, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

戶

Hi Frank, Wyangbot has incorrectly processed this character as simplified, probably because zh-hanzi-box had characters in the wrong order. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:43, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. The bot can't handle such high-level errors... Wyang (talk) 07:34, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I was just letting you know, in case you may need to check something else in the future runs. I don't know how your bot works either, it was just my guess. :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:55, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Chengyu and xiehouyu

Hi Frank. I noticed we have a Chinese xiehouyu category (Category:Chinese xiehouyu), could we create one for Chinese chengyu as well? I think it's way overdue. At the moment users of Wiktionary cannot distinguish between ordinary idioms and chengyu. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:24, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Good idea but there are currently 2,294 entries Category:Chinese_idioms. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:30, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

That's OK. Obviously it's a big project, but we need to categorise them all eventually. At the moment it's 亂七八糟. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:58, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

There's a lot of work. Converting remaining: Category:Mandarin_proverbs_in_traditional_script, Category:Mandarin proper nouns in simplified script, basic 字 entries without definitions or badly formatted. E.g. I did 熱／热 (rè) and 冷 (lěng) today, which are probably in the first 200 most common Chinese words! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I as a mediocre user of Wiktionary thought "Chinese idiom" = chengyu too. What is the difference (please allow me to be a five-minute fool...)? Wyang (talk) 07:38, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Good question. My understanding of the difference may not be right. @Tooironic What do you think? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:53, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

• See the Usage notes at 成語. A chengyu must have four characters (with some exceptions), and a story or historical quotation in its etymology. So expressions like 八竿子打不著, 包在...身上, 出難題, etc. wouldn't count. (The first one is a 俗語, the second one a fixed sentence structure and the third one a common collocation. But at the moment on Wiktionary we put anything remotely idiomatic in the idioms category which is misleading.) ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:42, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

• OK, I've created the category Category:Chinese chengyu. See 畫蛇添足 for an example. The PoS alias for Chengyu in {{zh-pron}} is "ch" or "cy". They will continue to use the ===Idiom=== header. Wyang (talk) 09:11, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:21, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Definitionless Chinese entries

Hi Frank, do you think you're able to add this code to Chinese entries lacking definitions, such 色?

===Definitions===
# {{rfdef|lang=zh}}

Perhaps most definitionless entries could be brought to this format by your bot? It would be easier then to add missing readings and senses?

==Chinese==
{{zh-forms}}

===Pronunciation===
{{zh-pron
|m=
|ma=y
|c=
|h=
|mn=
|w=
|mc=y
|oc=y
|cat=
}}

===Definitions===
# {{rfdef|lang=zh}}

I noticed that when using {{zh-new}}, Mandarin, Min Nan and Hakka readings are usually loaded automatically but not Cantonese. What do you think? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry I haven't been very responsive lately. I've changed the output of {{zh-new}} when used on monosyllabic entries. Not sure about the rfdef thing... in most cases it seems we can transfer the definitions directly to Chinese, so rfdef wouldn't be necessary. The Cantonese readings are usually absent because CantoDict had different link addresses for characters from words. I'll probably use some source to replenish Cantonese character readings when I've got time. Wyang (talk) 08:20, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Don't be sorry. Yeah, I'm all for copying the defs from the translingual sections, if it's easy. The |cat= will have to be filled manually, though. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:27, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Cantonese should be automatically loaded now. :) Wyang (talk) 10:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

削減 as in 削

Hi Frank, when you have time could you add xuè as the Taiwan variant pronunciation for 削減 as in 削? (Mainland: xuē.) Thanks ---> Tooironic (talk) 09:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Sure, done. Wyang (talk) 06:13, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

透天厝

意思？

A townhouse (in Taiwan). Wyang (talk) 06:07, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

WOMENKEYIZZUOGEntryBAOKUOetymo?

Sure, done. Wyang (talk) 10:39, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

厉害！-我自己也有办法做个newentry？fuzha？

当然，一点也不复杂，用{{zh-new}}或按照已有条目即可。Wyang (talk) 03:46, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

恩-我不是软体程序员-没有userfriendly输入mask？～～～～

已經非常簡單了，請見模板檔案頁。Wyang (talk) 10:27, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

dum q

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B2%92%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C#Chinese n'meiquanxi youfenbiema?[dumtw.teachers'makebigdealoutof'difrens..163.32.124.120 11:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

There are some differences. The former usually corresponds to no problem#Interjection sense 1, whereas the latter usually corresponds to no problem#Interjection sense 2. Wyang (talk) 06:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

wotrydgeng说明那些条目，可能你有法看一下？163.32.124.120 11:25, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

怎麼

Please deal with this page. --kc_kennylau (talk) 03:36, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Done. Wyang (talk) 09:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

姜 and 卡

I have spilt these two word to different etymologies. Please check if what I have done is correct.--GZWDer (talk) 07:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

No problem, done. Wyang (talk) 03:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_problem#Interjection

跟那个台湾的dichotomy prc/tw我没法表示繁体w/g-py除非你知道个解决法【他们的注音系统蠢蛋的样子一直要记得音节的声调whichidun：（是个太下流的软体问题包括为他们自己hedsheik～～～～

(To the anonymous guy) I'm sure that he understands English. There is no need to mechanically translate to Chinese. (To Wyang) Let me try to translate it... Nope, I can't translate it back to English. --kc_kennylau (talk) 11:22, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't know of an input method that converts Wade-Giles to Traditional Chinese, but conceivably there will be many that do so. If you know Pinyin, there are many input methods that produce Traditional Chinese. I've fixed the entry for you. Please be careful with your editting and don't confuse Chinese and English commas (， vs ,). Wyang (talk) 21:17, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

w[ith googlpinyin,sory[imstuck w/wot ruantitamentigong[gongyonngdiannao-editin;)m,naqiehuan wohaiyao bianxiguan36.228.119.92 12:35, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

或可藉助某些有簡繁轉換工具的網頁，抑或逐字用維基詞典轉化。Wyang (talk) 10:26, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yangtze#English

你知道怎么要link m。ricci2en。wikipedia？163.32.124.120 12:20, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Please see my edit there. Wyang (talk) 21:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

a-zheyang:)[ithout~linkin naxingmingzaitxtlimian[youbanfa,danwowangji/buqingchu36.228.115.73 12:27, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

stupid

Mandarin: 笨 (zh) (bèn), 蠢 (zh) (chǚn), 呆《不需要trema但我不知咋么改《那个拼音应该有办法自动的ad【跟那有关系的，有办法制造toggle2NUMERALS4表示声调？这样我看得更清楚163.32.124.120 12:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

已改。 Wyang (talk) 21:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

ta[tonemarx=v.hard2c4me[woyizhi/lao xuanze'numerals@mdbg/perakun>qingchu36.230.241.180 12:06, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

編輯框下方有個符號欄，編輯框上方也有個特殊字符的功能，如果看不清可以放大瀏覽器頁面。Wyang (talk) 10:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

zheshiwoyisi http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=mask&dmtm=0 163.32.124.124 07:06, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

ipa4中文语言

有办法下visibility一次点就以后一直表示完全发音资料？163.32.124.120 12:47, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

這個我不太清楚。Wyang (talk) 21:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

yinweixianzai Visibility Show pronunciations an>geibiaoshi gengduocompound-hanzide yisi,qiguai:~ 36.228.119.92 11:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

應該可以通過寫一個插件在個人偏好裡面使系統記住個人的選擇，但我對這方面的技術不熟悉。Wyang (talk) 10:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

{{vi-pron}}

I wonder if you're the one who's responsible for the template. I'd like to report a bug. As you can see on entries like "cua", the pronunciation is wrong. /kwaː/ can only be the pronunciation of "qua", not "cua". Bear in mind that the orthographic ua is only pronounced /waː/ if preceded by q; otherwise, it's pronounced as a diphthong, perhaps /uɜ/ or /uə/. Would you fix the template?

P/S: I've just came across another problem with quả. It's supposed to be pronounced /kwaː/, not /kwɜ/. Geez, someone's got it all backward.Fumiko Take (talk) 16:38, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed now. Wyang (talk) 00:09, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. But there's still a problem. I'd say /kwɜ/ is not the pronunciation of "cua", but rather of "quơ". Like I said, the orthographic ua is pronounced like a diphthong (/uɜ/ or /uə/) if not preceded by q. /wɜ/ should be the pronunciation of uơ, although this sequence is rather rare, i.e it exists in very few used syllables that some (even native) people may not properly articulate such as thuở, huơ, quơ, quở.Fumiko Take (talk) 01:22, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

It seems that the template has some issues with the glide /w/. I'd like to represent practical combinations here, hope it'll help you fix the template. Fumiko Take (talk) 04:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Phoneme sequence(s)	Preceded by q	Otherwise
/wa/	quă (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwa˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwa˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wa˧˧] Phonetic: quă	oă (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwa˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwa˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wa˧˧] Phonetic: oă
/waj/	quay (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwaj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwaj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [waj˧˧] Phonetic: quay	oay (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwaj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwaj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)waj˧˧] Phonetic: oay
/wajk(ŋ)/	quach (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwajk̟̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwat̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wat̚˧˧] Phonetic: quach quanh (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwajŋ̟˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwɛɲ˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wan˧˧] Phonetic: quanh	oach (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwajk̟̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwat̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wat̚˧˧] Phonetic: oach oanh (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwajŋ̟˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwɛɲ˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wan˧˧] Phonetic: oanh
/waː/	qua (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwaː˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwaː˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [waː˧˧] Phonetic: qua	oa (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwaː˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwaː˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)waː˧˧] Phonetic: oa
/uə/	quô (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kuə˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kuə˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wə˧˧] Phonetic: quô	ua in open syllables (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔuə˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔuə˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔuə˧˧] Phonetic: ua; uô in close syllables (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔuəŋ˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔuəŋ˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔuəŋ˧˧] Phonetic: uông
/wəː/	quơ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwəː˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwəː˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wəː˧˧] Phonetic: quơ	uơ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwəː˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwəː˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wəː˧˧] Phonetic: uơ
/wəːj/	quơi (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwəːj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwəːj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wəːj˧˧] Phonetic: quơi (as in the place name "Bình Quới")	n/a
/wə/	quâ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwə˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwə˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wə˧˧] Phonetic: quâ	uâ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwə˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwə˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wə˧˧] Phonetic: uâ
/wəj/	quây (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwəj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwəj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wəj˧˧] Phonetic: quây	uây (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwəj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwəj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wəj˧˧] Phonetic: uây
/wəjk(ŋ)/	quêch (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwəjk̟̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwet̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wəːt̚˧˧] Phonetic: quêch quênh (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwəjŋ̟˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwen˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wəːn˧˧] Phonetic: quênh	uêch (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwəjk̟̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwet̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wəːt̚˧˧] Phonetic: uêch uênh (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwəjŋ̟˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwen˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wəːn˧˧] Phonetic: uênh
/we/	quê (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwe˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwej˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wej˧˧] Phonetic: quê	uê (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwe˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwej˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wej˧˧] Phonetic: uê
/wɛ/	que (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwɛ˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwɛ˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wɛ˧˧] Phonetic: que	oe (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwɛ˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwɛ˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wɛ˧˧] Phonetic: oe
/wi/	standard quy (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwi˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwɪj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wɪj˧˧] Phonetic: quy; nonstandard qui (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwi˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwɪj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wɪj˧˧] Phonetic: qui	uy (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwi˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwɪj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wɪj˧˧] Phonetic: uy
/uj/	n/a	ui (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔuj˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔuj˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔuj˧˧] Phonetic: ui
/wik(ŋ)/	quych (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwïk̟̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwɨk̟̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wɨt̚˧˧] Phonetic: quych quynh (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwïŋ̟˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwɨn˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wɨn˧˧] Phonetic: quynh	uych (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwïk̟̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwɨk̟̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wɨt̚˧˧] Phonetic: uych uynh (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwïŋ̟˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwɨn˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wɨn˧˧] Phonetic: uynh
/wiə/	quyê (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwiə˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [kwiə˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [wiə˧˧] Phonetic: quyê	uya in open syllables (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwiə˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwiə˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wiə˧˧] Phonetic: uya; uyê close syllables (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwiət̚˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwiək̚˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wiək̚˧˧] Phonetic: uyêt
/wiw/	n/a	uyu (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔwiw˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔwiw˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [(ʔ)wiw˧˧] Phonetic: uyu

I've tried to fix this - please let me know if I've done the right thing. Thanks! Wyang (talk) 20:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

• Why is there a difference in pronunciation between quach (kwɐɪʔk̟̚) and oach (ʔwɐjʔk̟̚). For all I know the rhymes are pretty much identical, i.e if you remove q you'll get the same rhymes. Same thing for quanh and oanh.
• Even though ai as in tai (long /aː/) and ay as in tay (short /a/) can become allophones edit:homophones in some Southern accents, I'm not really sure if the same goes for their pre-labialized counterparts. quai and oai don't really rhyme with quay and oay.
• Like I said, ua represents /waː/ if preceded by q, and /uɜ/ if not. Therefore, qua perfectly rhymes with hoa, but not with vua.
• uơ should represent the pre-labialized /wəː/, not the diphthong /uɜ/ which is represented by <zero q>ua/uô. This is a rare rhyme, but it should not be confused with others. quơ and thuở don't rhyme with cua and thủa (although thủa is actually a variant pronunciation of thuở)
• qui is an alternate (and non-standard but very common) spelling of quy. ui is pronounced /wi/ if followed by q and /uj/ if not. quỉ surely rhymes with quỷ, but not with củi. Bear in mind q always goes with u to represent /kw/ no matter what vowel letter follows it (edit: except for ô), and qui should not be treated as q+ui, but as qu+i.Fumiko Take (talk) 09:45, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, how about now? Wyang (talk) 10:17, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Much better, thanks. But there are some glottal stops missing in quach. Would you check it again?Fumiko Take (talk) 10:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, added. Wyang (talk) 11:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, me again. I just found that the initial consonant in quô in Saigonese pronunciation has been gone (/uɜ/?), which doesn't seem quite right. There's only one common word containing quô, quốc (check the entry); the template fails to generate the proper transcription:

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kuək̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kuək̚˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [wək̚˦˥]
• Phonetic: quốc

As you can see, the Saigonese pronunciation here has become /uɜʔk̚˦ˀ˥/, which is not quite right.

I was just talking about Hanoian pronunciation. You might have noticed that Hanoian /kw/ is reduced to Saigonese /w/, therefore I'd like to know if /w/ simply represents a plain labialization, or also an additional velarization like the English /w/. Saigonese people actually prounced /w/ as in quăng, quậy with some level of velarization, which can be transcribed into /ɣw/.Fumiko Take (talk) 11:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I've changed Saigonese 'quô' to /wɜ/. The /w/ is meant to represent velarised labial /w/, and I'm not sure /ɣw/ would be a better way of representing it. I found this article a pretty useful read. Wyang (talk) 11:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the paper. I asked that because I had some doubt about whether the /w/ phoneme in qua /(ɣ?)waː/ have the same recognition as in loa /lwaː/, toa /twaː/, xoa /swaː/, etc.. If /w/ involves velarization, I'd say /w/ in qua is not likely to be recognized the same way as in loa, toa, xoa, etc., since the velarization in qua is very strong and notable, and that in loa, toa, xoa, etc. can hardly be heard. Are these different sounds simply treated as two allophones of the one phoneme /w/? I also have doubt about whether oa /waː/, hoa /(h?)waː/, /ɣwaː/ and qua /(ɣ?)waː/ are homophones in Souther dialects.Fumiko Take (talk) 07:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

古早

没有词典有哪条目：（～～～～

guo

   過了百貨公司便向右拐 / 过了百货公司便向右拐  ―  guò lebǎihuògōngsī biàn xiàngyòuguǎi   ―  Turn to the right after passing the department store.
   時間過得很快 / 时间过得很快  ―  shíjiān guò dé hěn kuài  ―  time flies quickly

i'dsay itsGUODE/esp!>GUOLEspace-templatfault?163.32.124.124 07:09, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

gotit[butpl'vlukanyway:)163.32.124.124 07:25, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BF%B3

wo[dalulaide]cidianmenmeiyounahanzi-1.zenmebiaoshi=variantof?2.nimenxianzaifangxiaTRAD.HANZI,wozhenbuzhizenmegai..~~

qishi,haoxiangwokanguode[zaitaiwan]shi1.na3bihuadeRADICAL2.youbian 7bihuadeTRADFORMhaoconfusin:~ 163.32.124.124 07:42, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

nimenyouzhege http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Chinese_radical/%E8%BE%B5 [zhenhuishi/suanbangzhuHANZISECTIONShuibiande genghaoyong..

球权

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耀眼

How do I get the non-Mandarin readings to show up in this entry? I had to recreate it manually because of a problem in the character database. ---> Tooironic (talk) 08:27, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I had the same issue with this page too: 凶兆. ---> Tooironic (talk) 09:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Added Cantonese pronunciation for both. --kc_kennylau (talk) 14:47, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 20:30, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I had the same issue with 抵制 as well... ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

съёмка

Hi Frank,

When you have a chance, could you fix the ru-pron module, please, to work with "ъ"? Pls let me know if you want to know more. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 17:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

@Atitarev What is wrong with съёмка? --kc_kennylau (talk) 02:38, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

It should be [ˈsjɵmkə], see Module:ru-pron/testcases. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 18:51, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Anatoli, fixed now. Wyang (talk) 20:30, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

愛

This entry shows up in Category:Pages with module errors from time to time due to script-execution time limits- I'm guessing it's close enough to the maximum that slowing the system down pushes it over the edge. It's not a serious problem (a null edit always clears it), but I thought I'd make you aware of it in the unlikely event you ever have nothing better to do. At the very least it's a good test case for module overhead. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:07, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, it hasn't misbehaved on my recent visits yet, but I'll keep an eye out for it. Wyang (talk) 07:23, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Chinese 菠薐 as part of Japanese 菠薐草

I was researching the etymology of 菠薐草#Japanese. This is clearly a compound of 菠薐 + 草, but past there, the derivation of 菠薐 is murky. The plant came via Sanskrit-speaking areas, making a Sanskrit derivation a possibility, as currently noted at 菠薐草#Japanese. However, I see that some JA- and ZH-language sources also state that 菠薐 was the name of a country or region, 菠薐国, as mentioned here and here. I note that an alternate ZH word for spinach, 波斯菜, uses 波斯 as basically a phonetic match for Persia. However, Nepal even in ancient times was apparently called “Nepal” (c.f. w:Nepal#Etymology), and I'm not aware of any placenames around there that sound at all like the palinga mentioned at w:zh:菠薐. Given the existence of Sanskrit पालङ्ग (pālaṅga, “beet? spinach?”), I'm leaning towards the view that the old Chinese term 菠薐国 was not actually the phonetic name of a place, but instead was simply “spinach country”.

Can you shed any more light on this? My Chinese reading comprehension is limited, so I'm pretty sure I'm missing lots.  :) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 20:58, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for this interesting case. I think you are absolutely right that a Sanskrit origin is almost certain, although I found a few closely related terms meaning "Indian spinach" (Beta bengalensis) rather than "beet" (Beta vulgaris). I've created 菠薐 (bōléng). Cheers, Wyang (talk) 10:12, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for the reply and entry creation. I wonder if you saw this article that talks some about the etymology? That post mentions a placename of पालक्क (pālakka) that apparently shows up in Sanskrit inscriptions, which seems to be verified by this dictionary entry sourced from Monier-Williams. However, I cannot find any indication of what or where this place might be, nor am I convinced that Sanskrit -lakka would be borrowed as Chinese -leng. The SA -langa → ZH -leng trajectory seems much more likely. Do you have any guidance on patterns in phonetic shifts for Sanskrit borrowings into Chinese? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:31, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

• FWIW, I just had a look at 菠薐 and noticed your mention of Nepali. I did some digging for the JA entry at 菠薐草, and if w:Nepali_language#History_of_the_language is to be believed, there wasn't any Nepali language per se until relatively recently -- well after spinach was introduced to China. Reading through w:Nepal#History led me to guess that the vector for spinach in the geographic area of Nepal was probably the w:Licchavi (kingdom), and their written records were apparently in Sanskrit. I'd guess that the daily language was a prakrit of some sort, but probably not too far removed from Sanskrit. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 07:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

• The association of the plant with the country name was probably first suggested by Wei Xuan himself (see quote in 菠薐), who said "豈非頗稜國將來，而語訛為菠稜耶？" ("Isn't it because it [i.e. spinach] came from the country p’olang, that it got its name polang?"). Sun Yi (孫奕) of the Song Dynasty also said: "《藝苑雌黃》云……蔬品有頗陵者，昔人自頗陵國將其子來，因以為名，今俗乃從艸而為菠薐。" ("According to the book Yiyuan Cihuang: The vegetable p’olang, was introduced as seeds from the country p’olang, and hence named. Nowadays its name is written with the 艸 radical, as '菠薐'."). This page suggests that the country pālakka was probably in the region of modern-day Palakkad, in Kerala of Southern India. I think the actual etymology is from the Sanskrit plant name, and I've tweaked the wording in the etymology a little to avoid mentioning Nepali. Wyang (talk) 23:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

• Excellent detail, thank you! Given that the plant was native to Persia and not Southern India, the p'olang < Palakkad connection looks like an early example of a folk etymology. Given the number of JA (and apparently ZH) resources that reference this country name as a possible source of the word, do you think it bears mentioning in the etym section? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 01:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

• I've expanded it a bit - please review, thanks! Wyang (talk) 02:52, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you again! I added a ref with the relevant quote from Laufer, please adjust as you see fit. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 08:38, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

{{zh-see}}

I think we should create some categories for pages using it, like Category:English plurals. They may be Category:Chinese simplified forms and Category:Chinese variant forms.--GZWDer (talk) 13:12, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah I agree, I've done the module changes and they can be created now. Wyang (talk) 23:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

別扭

Is there a way to get both the toneless syllable variant and the Taiwan variant to come up? Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:17, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Fixed. --kc_kennylau (talk) 08:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

雇主

Hi Frank, I tried to fix the problem with the homophones but it didn't seem to work. AFAIK, 僱主 is incorrect - 雇主 is both the trad and simp form. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:26, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic You seriously? I have been using 僱主 all my life. --kc_kennylau (talk) 07:38, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I've always used 雇主. I note that 僱主 is in none of the dictionaries I have at my disposal. ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:22, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I've made 雇員 variant of 僱員 and 雇主 variant/simplified form of 僱主. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:47, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

激光

This etymology doesn't look right to me. Any ideas? ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:11, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree, removed now. Wyang (talk) 07:14, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

認識

Should we classify this as a toneless variant? According to moedict, even in Taiwan it's pronounced rènshi, so arguably no "variation" has taken place. (Unlike, for example, 反應 or 程度 which are always pronounced as fǎnyìng and chéngdù respectively, the 轻声 just happens to be a variant that some Northerners use.) ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:15, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. Wyang (talk) 10:22, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

About POJ

I noticed that we list the Minnanhua for 全國 and 出國 as choân-kok and chhut-kok respectively, while moedict lists them as tsuân-kok and tshut-kok. Does moedict not use POJ, or are our romanisations here incorrect? ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:49, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Our POJ data (added by Frank) are correct and the entries use correct POJ and they generate correct IPA. You can also check against [1]. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Pe̍h-ōe-jī#Current_system has the list of initials, vowels and finals in standard Pe̍h-ōe-jī. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:09, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

The system used by moedict.tw is the Tâi-lô system, also generated by our template in the collapsed mode. Wyang (talk) 06:17, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought so too but it didn't seem to match 100% before or maybe I haven't checked well. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:22, 13 March 2015 (UTC)--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:22, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:29, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Quick question about 擯

The listed definitions for 擯 are "exclude, expel, reject" and "usher". Is "usher" a correct definition and, if so, is it a noun or a verb? I tried searching for answers elsewhere to no avail. Bumm13 (talk) 06:32, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

It means "to usher, to guide (guests)" (= 儐). Wyang (talk) 11:15, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

可供軍用

I didn't want to clutter up your rfd with what may be a dumb question: on the line in the entry where it displays

• Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kee gong jiunyonq

is the last letter supposed to be a Q? Chuck Entz (talk) 01:01, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Never mind, I didn't look closely enough at the Wikipedia article- yes, it was a dumb question. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:10, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Chengyu - again

I noticed now that when I create idiom entries they are automatically categorised as chengyu even if they are not, e.g. at 深更半夜. Can we fix this? ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:30, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Kc_kennylau (Kenny) wrote a function for the PoS conversion in {{zh-new}} which involves reverse matching of names to abbreviations; I'm not sure what the purpose is. This seems to be causing the forward matching error, as the function is not injective. Wyang (talk) 12:36, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Fixed. --kc_kennylau (talk) 13:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

库车

Requires immediate attention. --WikiWinters (talk) 22:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Attended to by Anatoli. Wyang (talk) 04:57, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

研究所

Is the measure word of this 家 or 個? The MDBG dictionary defines 研究所 as "research institute / graduate studies / graduate school / CL: 個｜个." --WikiWinters (talk) 00:14, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

There are hits for both on Baidu. I've made some changes now. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:31, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

{{vi-etym-sino}}

Should we add the Category:Vietnamese terms derived from Old Chinese for words borrowed before Middle Chinese? ばかFumiko￥^talk 02:47, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Good idea, although it might be difficult to discern sometimes. Wyang (talk) 04:59, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

How do you mean? ばかFumiko￥^talk 10:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

It is sometimes not easy to tell whether a non-MC Sino-Vietnamese word was derived from Old Chinese or simply an irregular reading (due to nativisation or dialectal influence); words like sức, buồm and kim are easy to tell as MC and OC levels are drastically different, but words like xanh may not be as easy. Wyang (talk) 11:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't have a handful of documents written in languages that I can read, so I can't tell either. How about studies of Wang Li or Henri Maspero. I've heard that they did do some studies on Vietnamese words derived from Chinese. ばかFumiko￥^talk 11:45, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Wang's work in 1948 is quite comprehensive and I'm happy to translate that. Not sure whether Maspero had publications on Sino-Vietnamese etymology. How about publications in Vietnamese? I once had a grey-covered old book on Vietnamese vocabulary (tu vung hoc tieng Viet I think it was called) which dealt with the different categories of Vietnamese words and Viet-Muong comparisons. Are there other Vietnamese etymological dictionaries (tu dien tu nguyen tieng Viet)? I vaguely remember seeing one before (published around 2007) online. Editted: I just found this - Từ điển nguồn gôc tiếng Việt; not sure if there is more work like this but this seems to be fantastic. Wyang (talk) 22:18, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The best I've got so far is Nguyễn Văn Khang's Từ ngoại lai trong tiếng Việt, which focuses on words of non-native origins. It even has a list of Vietnamese terms called 古漢越語 (Old Sino-Vietnamese (?); Pre-Sino-Vietnamese), and 漢語越化 (Vietnamese-nativised Chinese terms), but the data was extracted from Wang Li's work, and also partly from Vương Lộc's. It also lists a handful of words that are considered to have been borrowed from some Southern Chinese dialects such as Cantonese, Teochow, etc. Nguyễn also noted that Wang's work was the most comprehensive so far (I wonder if that's still true). I read that Wang mentioned some of Maspero's opinions, and his judgment was somewhat influenced by Maspero's. Do you think Wang's work is reliable and we can use it as reference on Wiktionary?

I've desperately tried to look for a comprehensive etymological dictionary, but still got nothing useful. Most works are outdated and have never got reprinted, and now are being stored in some university libraries in Hà Nội and Sài Gòn. Linguistics is not my major and I'm studying at Dak Lak, which makes them even harder to reach. That Từ điển nguồn gôc tiếng Việt seems like BS: it's poorly organized, and we don't really need that many English and French glosses for a native word, although I appreciate the effort in looking at other related languages such as Thai or Khmer.

I've found an online dictionary that deals with Mon-Khmer languages, at [2]. I have used it to retrieve etymological data of native words. Sadly, I haven't found anything like that that deals with non-Sino-Vietnamese words of Chinese origins. ばかFumiko￥^talk 03:42, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

The categories of "Old Sino-Vietnamese/Old-Chinese", "Vietnamese-nativised Sino-Vietnamese", "Sino-Vietnamese" seem to have been inherited straight from Wang Li's work, which was impressively comprehensive with influence from Maspero's publications. It's probably the most reliable of its kind that has been published. Thanks for the information on Vietnamese-language resources - pity that no etymological dictionary appears to have been written, but on the other hand this would be a perfect opportunity and challenge for us! I've used Sealang's Mon-Khmer etymological dictionary before and have a hard copy of that at hand; the only downside with it is that the Vietnamese cognates are oftentimes somewhat dubious. Wyang (talk) 06:11, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, there really are etymological works, but strictly on Sino-Vietnamese. It's a bloody shame that they don't publish those kinds of books anymore, maybe because they don't sell as well as stupid love novels for teenagers. By the way, where did you get that hard copy. I'd love to get it, too ^-^. Oh right, I think we're forgetting the subject. Should we add the category or should we not? Should we use data from Wang's studies? Or should we need more discussions with other members? ばかFumiko￥^talk 10:57, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Hard copy of the study can be found here; be cautious though as admittedly it is quite a ripoff, and the website version has also incorporated a lot of other studies, such as that of Ferlus'. Yeah, let's create the category and populate it using Wang's studies, and it seems it has been faithfully translated into Vietnamese in the form of Nguyen's work (?). Not sure if there are others active who might be interested too. Wyang (talk) 21:24, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. ばかFumiko￥^talk 02:16, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

A Heads-up

There are currently over 60 Korean entries in Category:Pages with module errors that seem to be from your edits to Module:ko-utilities earlier today.Chuck Entz (talk) 04:03, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Those entries have the wrong format of links - you can help fix them too! Please see the documentation page for {{ko-l}}. Wyang (talk) 05:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Maybe hanja should be allowed (suppressing translit and round brackets)? Also, the translit shouldn't be italicised, unlike {{m}} or {{term}}. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

OK... I've extended its usage slightly. Why is transliteration not italicised? I've always thought of it as a strange convention. It makes it hard to read and distinguish from definition. Wyang (talk) 05:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

it's just how {{l}} work, {{m}} can be used for italicisations and glosses use "". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:57, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm going to take this to rfc, since I don't speak Korean, have never used the template in question, and don't have the time or energy to get up to speed on either, since have my hands full sorting term links in etymologies of 90 or so entries using a deleted language code between one language with no online documentation that I know of, one with inadequate online documentation, and one with a pretty good dictionary but no language code. I thought you might want to take care of these first, though: diff, diff, diff. @Atitarev you might want to take care of this first, too: diff. If I seem a little cranky, it's because I've been running into unrelated module errors that have been sitting there for a week in among all the others, plus I haven't been able to get any sleep and I have to be at work in 3 1/2 hours. Chuck Entz (talk) 12:06, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Chill, man. Wyang (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

幹活兒

I noticed: Cantonese (Jyutping): gon3 wut6 ji4. Does Cantonese use erhuayin?? ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The data is from Sheik's Cantonese dictionary, which includes many standard written Chinese terms (Mandarin), even if they are never used in vernacular Cantonese. I wonder too, if they're ever spoken. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:39, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Pls see this search. @kc_kennylau, could you comment on this? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:45, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Not colloquially, but literally. Wyang (talk) 10:57, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

We (at least in Hong Kong) do not say 幹活兒. However, when we read from a text written in Mandarin, gon3 wut6 ji4 is the pronunciation. --kc_kennylau (talk) 11:34, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

一點兒

Why doesn't 一點兒 use Template:cmn-erhua form of, while 名兒, 名兒 and 命兒 all do? --WikiWinters (talk) 17:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

It should too. Wyang (talk) 22:02, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

 Done. --WikiWinters (talk) 22:26, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Taiwan pronunciation for 賜

Hi Frank, I realised that we are missing the Taiwan pronunciation for 賜 (sì) as in 賜予, 賞賜, 天賜 etc. Can you add it please? ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:21, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Carl, it was added before. Just change the pinyin ci4 to 賜 and it should work. Wyang (talk) 03:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I see, thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

What...

yīdiǎr

No 'n'? --WikiWinters (talk) 17:23, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

 Done. --WikiWinters (talk) 22:07, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

ファイト

Hi Frank,

Could you please fix the ja-pron module? The entry has [fúァìtò] and [fùァító]. Also @Eirikr --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

No problem, done. Wyang (talk) 02:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

醃

Hi Frank, trad/simp conversion didn't work on 醃牛肉. I'll try to fix it myself later (I've gotta go), if you're busy and if I remember how:). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:03, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

If you haven't figured this out yet, just add ['醃']='腌', to the start of Module:zh/data#ts and ['腌']='醃', to the start of Module:zh/data#st. I'll let you try this time... :) Wyang (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll fix it when I get to my desktop. :)--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:02, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

zh:Wiktionary:申请成为管理员#建議行政員總辭

You have a talkback there.--GZWDer (talk) 05:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks man. Wyang (talk) 10:51, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

變性毒素

How can I change the reading of the component 變性 in this word? At the moment it says "transsexual", obviously not the correct sense being pointed to. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:34, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Carl, like this diff?--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:45, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Yep, thanks Anatoli. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

好學

Could you help me check the non-Mandarin readings for the different senses? Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:02, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

No problem, done. Wyang (talk) 21:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! ---> Tooironic (talk) 11:31, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

세계적

Hi Frank,

What should be the format for 적-type of attributive adjectives, like 세계적? Should the form 세계적인 be fit somewhere in the entry? Also notifying @TAKASUGI_Shinji, KoreanQuoter. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I created 세계적 as a noun for now. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:17, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it is classified as a noun in both traditional grammar and modern grammar. It is grammatically the same as adjectival nouns in Japanese such as 世界的. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 04:34, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

@TAKASUGI_Shinji Thanks, Shinji. Does it need any inflection table (the Japanese adjectival nouns do)? Would a form like 세계적인 be considered an inflected form? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Category:Korean determiners is probably where they should go. Wyang (talk) 05:35, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Done, thanks. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

They are not determiners. The words with -적 cannot precede real determiners such as 모든. 세계적 in 세계적 기업 (“global company”) is rather a noun adjunct. You can say 모든 세계적 기업, but not *세계적 모든 기업. You can say 세계적인 모든 기업 though. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 07:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Makes sense, what do you say, Frank? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

They are both determiners (관형사) and nouns (명사). Wyang (talk) 22:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

@TAKASUGI_Shinji and Frank, thank you both. I don't have a strong opinion on this and not enough knowledge on the topic. I'll let you guys decide what to do with 세계적 and similar terms. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

@TAKASUGI_Shinji and Frank. Frank seems to be right. They are both nouns and determiners. Tuttle Learner's Korean-English dictionary labels them as both nouns and determiners. As I said, I have no strong preference but will probably make them nouns, just to avoid duplications. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:11, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

If we are to choose only one category, it is better to classify it as a noun. Real determiners should not function as nouns. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 13:58, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Do you know how to add information about ancestors...

...to a language category page, for example, this one? ばかFumiko￥^talk 13:42, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Whoops, it seems that your talk page has been added to this category. ばかFumiko￥^talk 13:45, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

I did it like this: (diff), but these sub-modules are protected so only admins can edit them (a vandal could wreak havoc on huge numbers of entries with one edit, otherwise). If you want a change made, you have to ask an admin. As for the category: it was there before. Either someone wrote [[Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation]] instead of [[:Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation]], or they wrote {{vi-pron}} instead of {{temp|vi-pron}}. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:24, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

It looks like the real culprit is {{vi-IPA}}. It probably should be modified to only categorize in main and appendix namespaces, but that's such a minor problem that it can wait. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:33, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Seems everything here has been fixed... Wyang (talk) 10:06, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

血豆腐

Don't suppose you can come up with any better translations? It's really hard to make it sound appetizing in English. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:46, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

You could always be literal and say "blood tofu", or "blood curd" might work (see w:Pig blood curd). If you were to make it into a sausage with some other ingredients, it would probably be English black pudding. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I tried my best there... Wyang (talk) 10:09, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

穴

Could you please add the Taiwan pronunciation variant for 穴 - xuè - e.g. 洞穴 is dòngxuè. Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:22, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Done diff, diff and diff. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:00, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

entries like 異質

Is there a way to find all entries like 異質 which are using Mandarin headers instead of Chinese ones? ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:58, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic You can open one of the old "cmn" templates Category:Mandarin headword-line templates and then click on "what links here" on the left. Most of the old multi-character entries are converted. There are still a few remaining proper nouns, proverbs. I've cleaned some of the adjectives todays. There are still odd ones with Roman letters, like 牛X. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Carl, conversion of the remaining multi-character Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:cmn-proper_noun and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:cmn-proverb would be highly appreciated. I've done loads of them manually (Frank did most with AWB) but there are still quite a few left. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:11, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Gotcha, will do. ---> Tooironic (talk) 11:40, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Try searching for insource:/==Mandarin==/ -Romanization Chuck Entz (talk) 13:33, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz, Tooironic Yes, that's a good hint too, thanks. I would tick only the main namespace. Tooironic is probably most interested in multi-character terms, though, not all entries with Mandarin "headers". The search produces too many pages in all parts of speech. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:cmn-proverb only has Mandarin proverbs in need of conversion to "Chinese" L2 header. Most PoS are already successfully converted. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:09, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

搜集 and 蒐集

As far as I know, the latter is just an alternative form of the other. But the Cantonese readings given are not the same. Any ideas? ---> Tooironic (talk) 09:19, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Jyutping is correct in both entries. I think they should be considered synonyms, not alt. forms. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Calling on @Kc_kennylau. Wyang (talk) 10:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

@Wyang I have never seen 蒐 except in news report, i.e. modern literary Chinese (現代書面語), which have been highly influenced by Mandarin. "sau1 zaap6" is not unheard of; it is the Jyutping for 收集, with the same meaning. --kc_kennylau (talk) 11:28, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

sau1 zaap6 it is then! Wyang (talk) 02:33, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

眼罩

Don't suppose you have any ideas about how we can translate the last sense (把手平放在眼睛上方用以遮阳的姿势。打起眼罩望远方。)?---> Tooironic (talk) 04:44, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

The current definition seems good to me. Wyang (talk) 10:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Alternate Cantonese pronunciations in {{zh-pron}}

{{zh-pron}} already allows multiple variant Mandarin pronunciations to be generated for a character, like at 血糖 (血→xue4, xue3); can this also be done for Cantonese (as in 糯→no6, lo6)? —umbreon126 07:33, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

We discussed a while ago and decided not to follow relaxed Cantonese pronunciation as in Hong_Kong_Cantonese#Pronunciation. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:46, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, there should be some sort of note probably too. Wyang (talk) 10:12, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

giết

Bug report again. /z̻eʔt̚˧ˀ˦//jeʔt̚˦˥//jɜːʔt̚˦ˀ˥/ are all not the proper pronunciations of giết. The sequence iê here represents the diphthong /iə/, as does the sequence ia. It should be noted that there's basically no rules to tell if the sequence giê represents /ziə/ or /ze/. I can only provide a few examples.

giê /ziə/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ze˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [jej˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jej˧˧] Phonetic: giê	giê /ze/
giếm /ziəm/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziəm˧˦] (Huế) IPA(key): [jiəm˦˧˥] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jim˦˥] Phonetic: giếm
giết /ziət/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziət̚˧˦] (Huế) IPA(key): [jiək̚˦˧˥] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jiək̚˦˥] Phonetic: giết	giền /zen/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zen˨˩] (Huế) IPA(key): [jen˦˩] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jəːn˨˩] Phonetic: giền
giếc /ziək/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziək̚˧˦] (Huế) IPA(key): [jiək̚˦˧˥] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jiək̚˦˥] Phonetic: giếc
giêng /ziəŋ/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziəŋ˧˧] (Huế) IPA(key): [jiəŋ˧˧] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jiəŋ˧˧] Phonetic: giêng
giếng /ziəŋ/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziəŋ˧˦] (Huế) IPA(key): [jiəŋ˦˧˥] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jiəŋ˦˥] Phonetic: giếng
giềng /ziəŋ/ (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziəŋ˨˩] (Huế) IPA(key): [jiəŋ˦˩] (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jiəŋ˨˩] Phonetic: giềng

Well, there may be one rule lol: giê represents /ziə/ in all words, except in giền. ばかFumiko￥^talk 08:29, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Ok, I made some changes and I hope I did the right things this time! Wyang (talk) 10:43, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

休戚

I had trouble creating this entry. Please add any non-Mandarin readings when you have the time. ---> Tooironic (talk) 08:04, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Added three lects + Korean. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:46, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Anatoli. ---> Tooironic (talk) 09:16, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

佛#Compounds

Hi Frank,

Do these need manual conversion? The module think 佛 is the simplified form of 彿. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:56, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Nope, please fix it if you can. :) Wyang (talk) 10:45, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Fix the module or add manual simplified forms to the entry? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:50, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

It's OK, I've fixed it. :) Wyang (talk) 02:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

湊合 and 凑合

Uh oh, serious problem here, the traditional and simplified forms seem to be inverted. Is this a problem with the script? ---> Tooironic (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tooironic Fixed by regenerating. There's no problem with modules but the bot incorrectly processed it because of the wrong order - simp/trad in the hanzi box! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:06, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:13, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

噸 as in 噸位, 公噸, etc.

When you get time can you add the Taiwan variant pronunciation of dùn for 噸 as in 噸位, 公噸, etc.? (It's pronounced dūn on the mainland.) Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:09, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

It was already added before; using the character will change the readings. Wyang (talk) 10:45, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

바

Thank you for adding the etym to 밧줄 (batjul). I don't suppose I could ask you to expand 바 (ba) to add in the relevant etym and sense info for the rope meaning?  :) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 21:01, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

No problem, done :). Wyang (talk) 22:44, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

놓치다

Hi Frank,

Could you fix the pronunciation, please? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:28, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. Wyang (talk) 07:27, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

• Heya, I don't suppose you could add the missing glosses in the etym section?  :) The infix and the suffix escape me. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:39, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

• Sure, done :). Wyang (talk) 22:41, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

FYI

Your rights in zhwiktionary will be removed per zh:Wiktionary:申请成为管理员 / m:Steward requests/Permissions.--GZWDer (talk) 05:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Rights are removed by MarcoAurelio.--GZWDer (talk) 09:51, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

^ in {{t+}}

Hi Frank,

Sorry to trouble you but I have just discovered that "^" in {{t+}} no longer links to interwikis and {{t+}} isn't generated when an interwiki entry exists, such as Korean. Pls see Korean translations at Europe#Translations. Korean Wiktionary has 구라파 but it's not linked correctly, uses {{t}}, not {{t+}}. {{t+}} for 유럽 is trying to link to "^유럽" in the Korean Wiktionary. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:53, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Fixed? Wyang (talk) 01:27, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, missed your reply. No, not fixed. You can hover over the links to see that it's trying to use ^ in the link. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:32, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Template:ja-pron oddity at 皇帝陛下#Japanese

Heya Wyang --

皇帝陛下#Japanese currently shows a pronunciation of [kòótéé éꜜèkà] instead of the expected [kòótéé héꜜèkà]. I thought leading "h"s were only removed for へ in isolation?

Also, I tried fixing the romanizations at 天皇陛下 and てんのうへいか to add the space in the middle, but when doing so, apparently we can't also use ^ to force init-caps -- adding the ^ instead results in the space being removed, and no caps at all.  ???

If you have the time, it'd be great if you could have a look.  :) Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 17:01, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

No prob, I will when free... Wyang (talk) 01:30, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

• Noticed similar problems in {{ja-pron}} at 天皇陛下, as well as something wonky in the romanization code, where ^てんのう ^へいか is currently generating TEnnō Heika. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 18:50, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

碰撞

Can you help me add the non-Mandarin readings? I had trouble with the script. ---> Tooironic (talk) 07:33, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Seems to have been done by Anatoli. Wyang (talk) 01:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi Frank,

Sorry to disturb you, we need your help with these please. :) Module:hi-translit/testcases and Module:ru-pron/testcases (one failed test case) Please let me and User:DerekWinters know if you need explanation of the rules. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:34, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

I will, if I have enough time (god knows when, maybe end of year it seems...). Wyang (talk) 01:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:綠

I don't know if you have any insight, but I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at this anon's concern. He (assuming male-ness) insists that 綠／绿 should include a lù reading in addition to lǜ. I'm not finding it for 綠／绿. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:43, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, lù is used in certain words, most notably 鴨綠江, 綠林. Wyang (talk) 01:23, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

남비 from 鍋#Japanese?

An anon recently added an etym to 남비 (nambi) that gives a derivation from 鍋 (nabe, “pot, pan”). I'm curious if this is accurate, and if so, 1) how old is this borrowing, and 2) how often does Korean exhibit added nasalization in borrowed terms? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 06:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

This is accurate. The word itself is probably fairly recent (unless it is a relic from Old Japanese which had prenasalised consonants...). Please see my edit there. Wyang (talk) 07:04, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Excellent additional information, thank you! FWIW, Japanese has some internal nazalization processes, sometimes explained away as dialectal (c.f. the "Tama River" vs. the "Taba River", same river), but occurring throughout the language and throughout history, as best I can tell (c.f. nami "wave" and nabiku "to wave", nabikau "to be waving"). I'm interested to see what appears to be a similar phenomenon happening in Korean. Cheers! ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 17:33, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

The nasals in modern Korean have the tendency to become plosivised, especially word-initially. So mal may sound like mbal. Not sure if this is relevant, but to me it's something interesting to note. Wyang (talk) 00:25, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

jianpi=pleura?[fei-

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Due to asbestos exposure? Wyang (talk) 00:22, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

다다르다 and 들르다

Hi Frank,

Do you approve this diff? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:28, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

You cannot judge whether it is regular or reu-irregular just by its basic form. 다다르다 and 따르다 are regular while 모르다 and 흐르다 are reu-irregular. Why don’t you add a parameter to specify a conjugation group? — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 05:51, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I have modified the module to account for this. Wyang (talk) 06:25, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:06, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Apostrophes not showing when needed

Hi Frank,

There's some problem with zh-usex I noticed recently. It was introduced with some recent edits. Template_talk:zh-usex#Apostrophe. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:44, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Anatoli, sorry for the delay. Fixed now. Wyang (talk) 00:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

JIANMA

=DECREASe?[meanin111.248.199.73 10:02, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

What? Wyang (talk) 00:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Just want to double-check translation for 旞

Hi Wyang, I just wanted to have you double-check the translation I did for 旞 using this text: 古代的一种旗子，系着完整的五色羽毛，插在导车上。 I think I have it pretty good but simply wanted a second opinion. Thanks! Bumm13 (talk) 02:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I think it's referring to the feathers not the flag, so I modified it a little. Please amalgamate Chinese sections if possible. Thanks! Wyang (talk) 00:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

幀 as in 裝幀

Can you please help me add the variant Taiwan pronunciation of 幀 as in 裝幀? The mainland standard is zhēn, while in Taiwan it is zhèng. Thank you. ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:05, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Not a problem, done. Wyang (talk) 00:47, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

擁躉

Hey, you added this as a Cantonese word but didn't include the Cantonese reading. ---> Tooironic (talk) 07:50, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Anatoli arrived first on this. Wyang (talk) 00:50, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Counting error on whitespace in `romajitext` in Module:ja-pron

The romajitext length calculation appears to be thrown off by whitespace, as currently seen in mistaken output from {{ja-pron}} at 肉食動物 and 草食動物. I had a cursory look at the code, but I don't have the time or energy right now to pick apart what's happening. I'd appreciate it greatly if you could have a look when you have time. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 06:58, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

No worries, I think it's fixed now. Wyang (talk) 06:44, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

覲 as in 朝覲

For 覲, please add the Taiwan variant of jǐn when you get time, as in 朝覲 (mainland: cháojìn, Taiwan: cháojǐn). Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 10:47, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Sure, done now. Wyang (talk) 00:54, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Module:ru-pron

Hi Frank,

Long time no see. Could you please help with two words? до́рого (dórogo) should be [ˈdorəgə] (not [ˈdorəvə], not an adjective), just like мно́го (mnógo), the |adj=n doesn't seem to work and тьфу (tʹfu) should be just [tʲfu]. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:38, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Anatoli. Long time no see. For the first case, seems to be ok for now but I'm not sure the exceptions have been accounted for at various places. Second one is done. Cheers, Wyang (talk) 07:23, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Frank. I was hoping you could fix the adj= parameter, so that final -ого/-его (with or without stresses) would produce [v] for adjective (or pronouns, participles, when adj=y) and [ɡ] otherwise. Anyway, I can use |phon= for adjectives. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:30, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Np Anatoli, it seems to be working now: diff. Wyang (talk) 00:17, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Frank! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:44, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

曏 question

I noticed that the 曏 entry has "once upon a time" and "period of time" definitions from the Unihan Database but I haven't been able to verify those from other sources; those definitions are also not listed at the corresponding simplified character entry 向. Just want to know your opinion on those definitions. Bumm13 (talk) 20:12, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, these defs are verified by Kangxi Zidian. Wyang (talk) 00:19, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Oh geez, I didn't even think to look there! Thanks for the help! :) Bumm13 (talk) 20:36, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Tone sandhi

If you look at 不是, you'll see that the example pinyin contains the phonetic form, whereas 不上 contains the original form even though a phonetic version is listed. Why is this? --WikiWinters (talk) 01:20, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

不是 contains > 1 variety. Wyang (talk) 01:39, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by variety. --WikiWinters (talk) 02:20, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Variety/topolect/dialect. Wyang (talk) 03:50, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@WikiWinters Wyang means that you need to expand the pronunciation table. It's collapsed by default when there is more than one variety of Chinese present. Both entries have "phonetic pinyin" parts. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:55, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@Atitarev, Wyang I've expanded it before, which was how I noticed that they both had phonetic pinyin. What I'm wondering, though, is why in the quotations section of each respective page, the pinyin used may or may not match the phonetic pinyin given in the expanded table. For the quotations section in 不上, the pinyin written matches the regular pinyin (not phonetic), whereas the quotations section in 不是 has the pinyin as the phonetic form. I'm wondering why there is an inconsistency. I don't understand how 不是's having more than one variety is the reasoning for this. I hope I'm not being too difficult. I don't want to waste your time. --WikiWinters (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

No worries. "whereas the quotations section in 不是 has the pinyin as the phonetic form" - not anymore. Wyang (talk) 23:13, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Translation for 曟

I've added two definition entries for the 曟 entry. I know it isn't a great translation but I couldn't help but try to tackle it, anyway. Here is the original Chinese text:

• 古同“晨”，指二十八宿之一的房宿。
• 古指二十八宿之一的心宿，或指北极星。

I know I'm "almost" there but I just wanted you to look at it to make it fully correct. Thanks again! Bumm13 (talk) 20:39, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

No worries. Please see my changes there. Wyang (talk) 05:45, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, even before seeing your changes, I remembered that the "Antares" text was incorrect. Thanks a million for your help! Bumm13 (talk) 19:50, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

No problem, you are too kind. Wyang (talk) 23:16, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Clarification/insight into "日正"

Hi Wyang, I have an obscure character (曧) that apparently has "日正" as its definition. I'm not positive, but I think that it simply means "sunlight" but I'm not completely sure about that. The 正 character has a ton of different meanings on its own, such as "just (right)" or "correct". Any insight into this surprisingly difficult word would be appreciated. Bumm13 (talk) 03:41, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

It means "when sun is directly overhead; midday". Wyang (talk) 10:04, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

大家

Would appreciate it if you could take a look at my changes here (the second reading is hard to translate...). ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:58, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

No problem buddy, please see my change there. Wyang (talk) 23:07, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Lovely, the entry looks amazing now. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:14, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Variant for 肖

Please remove the variant for 肖, it's incorrect. It's always pronounced xiào both on the mainland and in Taiwan. The only exception is when it acts as a surname (Xiāo). As you can see pronunciation for entries like 生肖 are incorrect. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:12, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Good point, the variation has been removed. 生肖 is pronounced in two ways in Mainland though. Wyang (talk) 01:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Simplified variant form

What do I put if a word is the simplified variant form of another word? --kc_kennylau (talk) 07:57, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

I like this question (something bothers me about the way 擥 is set up) —suzukaze (t・c) 04:58, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply guys - Has this been resolved? I'm sure some tweak in Module:zh-see should solve this. Wyang (talk) 01:06, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I'm fairly sure the question is about how to deal with words like 纥哒 (simplified form of 紇噠, which is a variant of 疙瘩)—suzukaze (t・c) 01:20, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

帝都

Why do you define this as "(ironic) Beijing"? I thought it just meant any imperial capital. ---> Tooironic (talk) 09:38, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

It may not be ironic as a historical term, but I would say referring to modern Beijing as an imperial capital would definitely qualify as ironic. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:47, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Chuck is right. Wyang (talk) 01:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Translation for 朡

One of the definitions for 朡 uses this Chinese text: 拘系，以刑具敛足 -- I translated it as "to capture a person and restrain their feet using a torture device" but I wanted to check with you to make sure I wasn't reading it wrong or something (or to make minor improvements to it). Thanks again! Bumm13 (talk) 22:58, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Yep, you had that definition right. :) Wyang (talk) 01:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

量化

Do you know if 量化 can also mean quantize? I'm a bit confused. ---> Tooironic (talk) 15:24, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

The physics sense is more commonly rendered as 量子化, but 量化 does seem to be used for the other senses too: [3]. Wyang (talk) 01:11, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

美稱

Had trouble translating the verb sense. Any feedback would be appreciated. ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:29, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Could you give me an example of this word used in the verb sense? Wyang (talk) 01:12, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

搿#Wu

Could you please fix this section? Thanks. —suzukaze (t・c) 04:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

I've removed the Wu section. All Chinese topolects now have to use "Chinese" L2 header as per the vote we had. Added Wu reading and sense (may need expansion). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:09, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

游#Chinese／遊#Chinese

Could you please fix up 游#Chinese and 遊#Chinese? (I was going to give it a shot but I got way too confused about which means what and which one is the variant of the other...) —suzukaze (t・c) 05:07, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Done. :) Wyang (talk) 01:43, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Definition of 塲

Could you double-check the definitions at 塲 (translated from [4])? Thanks. —suzukaze (t・c) 05:42, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

NP; Seem OK to me. Wyang (talk) 01:43, 17 August 2015 (UTC)