Satsuma wrote:A Chinese person that I know who studies Korean told me that if you know the Chinese pronunciation of a character, you'd be able to systematically figure out how it would be pronounced in Korean. If this is true, can someone either describe the sound changes or supply a link? I found something akin to what I'm looking for, but it's for Japanese.
中古汉语呢?linguoboy wrote:You might do better starting from Cantonese, since it preserves the finals, but the only foolproof starting point would be reconstructed Early Chinese.
Satsuma wrote:中古汉语呢?linguoboy wrote:You might do better starting from Cantonese, since it preserves the finals, but the only foolproof starting point would be reconstructed Early Chinese.
What about Middle Chinese?
モモンガ wrote:You will have to remember the most of the pronunciations one by one.
Fortunately Korean has no multiple readings like Japanese (there re some, but these are rare).
As a tip, if Chinese say ming, Japanese say mei or myou, Korean pronunciation will be 명
Chinese jing and japanese kei or kyou will give 경
zheng and sei is 정
linguoboy wrote:モモンガ wrote:You will have to remember the most of the pronunciations one by one.
Fortunately Korean has no multiple readings like Japanese (there re some, but these are rare).
As a tip, if Chinese say ming, Japanese say mei or myou, Korean pronunciation will be 명
Chinese jing and japanese kei or kyou will give 경
zheng and sei is 정
Yeah, if you know both the modern Chinese and the Japanese on'yomi, you can pretty much always predict the Korean reading. For instance, 證 is also zhèng in Pinyin but in Japanese it's shou, which indicates that the Korean version will be 증 rather than 정.
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