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| Processed by: | richwarm (2011-08-12 22:59:27 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 36178 - submitted by 'jsmith' >> This is 汗 as in 可汗, which you have. http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan and Google translate give this pronunciation http://zidian.teachercn.com/han/Word_5219.html Alternatively, if you add the second reading to 汗, you could delete this entry and replace it with one for 成吉思 --------------------------------------------------- Editor: You can't trust Wp on orthography. They have both Chéng Jí Sī Hán and Chéngjísī Hán in the same article. ABC regards 成吉思汗 as a single-word name ~ "Chéngjísīhán (1162-1227) n. Genghis Khan" After checking various sources, I surmise that 汗[han2] is not a word, but rather a character used in words like 汗国, 可汗 and 成吉思汗. 可汗 is a loanword, "an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China" [Wikipedia] and its component characters were adopted for transliteration. Because 汗[han2] does not have other senses ("sweat" is 汗[han4], etc.) it can be said to have the meaning "khan", but that does not mean it can be used as a word on its own. |
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- 成吉思汗 成吉思汗 [Cheng2 ji2 si1 han4] /Genghis Khan (1162-1227)/ # + 成吉思汗 成吉思汗 [Cheng2 ji2 si1 Han2] /Genghis Khan (1162-1227)/ + 成吉思汗 成吉思汗 [Cheng2 ji2 si1 han2] /Genghis Khan (1162-1227)/ # # Editor: Also added the following lines - 汗國 汗国 [han4 guo2] /khanate (Mongol state)/ # han4 --> han2 + 汗國 汗国 [han2 guo2] /khanate (Mongol state)/ - 元太祖 元太祖 [Yuan2 tai4 zu3] /posthumous title of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗[Cheng2 ji2 si1 han4] (1162-1227)/ # capital T in the pinyin & han4 --> han2 + 元太祖 元太祖 [Yuan2 Tai4 zu3] /posthumous title of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗[Cheng2 ji2 si1 han2] (1162-1227)/ - 可汗 可汗 [Ke4 han2] /Khan/Qaghan/ # just as "queen" is only capitalized when it refers to a particular queen -- e.g. Queen Elizabeth II + 可汗 可汗 [ke4 han2] /khan (loanword)/ + 汗 汗 [han2] /see 可汗[ke4 han2], 汗國|汗国[han2 guo2]/ |