Image: Mengu Ziyun xia 24b
Description: Across the top of the page are Old Mandarin syllables (disregarding tone) tsim, tshim, sim, zim, shim, zhim, ·im, xim, yim and lim, each written vertically in 'Phags-pa script. Beneath each syllable is a list of characters with that pronunciation, grouped by tone (平, 上, 去 and 入).
Title: English: Page from the only extant manuscript copy of the 14th century rhyming dictionary of Chinese in the 'Phags-pa script (Měnggǔ Zìyùn 蒙古字韻).
Credit: scanned from Luo Changpei 羅常培 and Cai Meibiao 蔡美彪, "Basibazi yu Yuandai Hanyu [Ziliao Huibian]" 八思巴字與元代漢語[資料彙編] (Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe 科學出版社, 1959) plate 33
Author: Zhu Zongwen 朱宗文
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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