Project

Study on Chinese Phonetic Loan Characters in Dunhuang Manuscripts Dating from 700-1000 CE

Code
01N03516
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 October 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
Phonetic loan characters Dunhuang manuscripts Chinese writing system
 
Project description

The project deals with an important mechanism in Chinese writing, the use of “phonetic loan characters”, as exemplified in the Dunhuang manuscript corpus and with an emphasis of non-canonical material dating from ca. 700 to 1000 CE. The use of loan characters will be systematically analyzed and its function concerning “orality” in Chinese writing investigated.