{"id":63379,"date":"2024-04-11T11:32:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=63379"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:32:17","slug":"polysyllabic-sinoglyphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=63379","title":{"rendered":"Polysyllabic sinoglyphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CiaoCiaota\/status\/1777278335573200969\">Markus Samuel Haselbeck<\/a>, responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/egasmb\/status\/1744321983901290975\">Egas Moniz-Bandeira<\/a> on Twitter\/X:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As the discussion of polysyllabic sonography goes on, I want to add a character that I recently discovered in a Chinese restaurant, here in Leuven. I guess it is pronounced Zh\u014dnggu\u00f3 (\u4e2d\u570b), China? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1cc65vq4fC\">https:\/\/t.co\/1cc65vq4fC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UveFSHK3dz\">pic.twitter.com\/UveFSHK3dz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Markus Samuel Haselbeck (@CiaoCiaota) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CiaoCiaota\/status\/1777278335573200969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Proof that the sinoglyphic writing system is open-ended, both with regard to the number of sinoglyphs it includes and the number of syllables each glyph contains.<\/p>\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to A new polysyllabic character\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=26587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D26587&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712931870478000&amp;usg=AOvVaw13m6by2pfLRv-z94VGtDNB\">A new polysyllabic character<\/a>\" (4\/3\/16)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Polysyllabic characters in Chinese writing\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D3330&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712931870478000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RUo_v3jpV5db4rKCpxOju\">Polysyllabic characters in Chinese writing<\/a>\u00a0\" (8\/2\/11)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Polysyllabic characters revisited\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=19548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D19548&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712931870478000&amp;usg=AOvVaw12pqYiIgCPenrI-HOurTIs\">Polysyllabic characters revisited<\/a>\" (6\/18\/15)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" title=\"Permanent link to The unpredictability of&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;\n        Chinese character formation and pronunciation\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D3750&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712931870478000&amp;usg=AOvVaw39Lb6Xc9IwEYogmDK_vQEC\">The unpredictability of Chinese character formation and pronunciation<\/a>\" (2\/6\/12)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Yet another polysyllabic Chinese character\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=29119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D29119&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712931870478000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RK1VCsWanPWKsyQ8D6vQJ\">Yet another polysyllabic Chinese character<\/a>\" (10\/31\/16)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to The infinitude of Chinese characters\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D48404&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712931870478000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1KGrsY17Mvbr5mBdvLOlDc\">The infinitude of Chinese characters<\/a>\" (9\/9\/20) &#8212; with an extremely long bibliography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Markus Samuel Haselbeck, responding to Egas Moniz-Bandeira on Twitter\/X: As the discussion of polysyllabic sonography goes on, I want to add a character that I recently discovered in a Chinese restaurant, here in Leuven. I guess it is pronounced Zh\u014dnggu\u00f3 (\u4e2d\u570b), China? https:\/\/t.co\/1cc65vq4fC pic.twitter.com\/UveFSHK3dz \u2014 Markus Samuel Haselbeck (@CiaoCiaota) April 8, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redundancy","category-writing-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63399,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63379\/revisions\/63399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}