Title: Original Meaning and Cognates of Character "Yin" and Its Semantic Category
Abstract: By investigating the original and implied meanings of the character Yin through its word formation and exploring its derived meaning through consulting the development of semantic derivation of ancient words,the cognates that use Yin as a phonetic component and their semantic category are further analyzed.Words containing Yin phonetic component use Shen and Rong to form variant forms and to form vernacular forms respectively.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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