Thomas Chan wrote:
> I've typed up my notes on the Vietnamese and Korean ones here, for you:
Many thanks, that is extremely useful, as I don't know either of these languages.
Over night I added Persian (thanks to Roozbeh) and Japanese to the list, and so
with Korean and Vietnamese it should be q
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew C. West wrote:
> I have a half-finished page that gives the names of the twelve
> calendrical animals in the languages of various peoples within and
> bordering China that have adopted the Chinese calendrical system,
> available at :
> http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone13
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
> From memory, although my memory may be faulty, there are some slight
> differences between the animals assigned in the Chinese calendars and
> the animals assigned in the Vietnamese calendar.
There's also a Turkic cycle of animals borrowed from th
I have a half-finished page that gives the names of the twelve calendrical
animals in the languages of various peoples within and bordering China that have
adopted the Chinese calendrical system, available at :
http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357/Calendar/index.html
It covers an interesting mi
From memory, although my memory may be faulty, there are some slight
differences between the animals assigned in the Chinese calendars and
the animals assigned in the Vietnamese calendar.
in the Vietnamese sequence, it is goat. while most chinese sources
indicate sheep (occasionally they say ra
And
the Boston Globe has it as the year of the ghost
Stolen from Mathews, as it happens.
On Google, "year of the goat"
has the
lead.
John H. Jenkins scripsit:
> KangXi says (if I'm understanding it correctly)
> something like "animal with curved horns." (It's more complex than
> that, but I think I caught the essence.)
It reminds me of the desperate definition of "horse", sense 1, in the
English-language _Century Dictionary
Thomas Chan scripsit:
> And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
> guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay".
So that line of Tennyson's only meant that Europe did things 6/5 as
fast as China? I interpreted "cycle" in tha
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Thomas Chan wrote:
And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store
in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is
"sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123".
Stolen from Mathews, as it happens.
On Google, "year of t
ver (www.pearlriver.com) department store
in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is
"sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123". On Google, "year of the goat" has the
lead.
And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the
guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay".
Thomas Chan
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At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:
Michael Everson wrote:
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
Ram.
europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons),
says Goat. My local Superquinn's
Michael Everson wrote:
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
Ram.
Eric.
Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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