Re: one Polish loanword from Chinese

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:37:31 -0700

Andrew wrote:

> How about Minnan chhEh4 冊? (The initial chh is a bit like
> pinyin q, and the final h is a glottal stop.) The character even looks
> like a book.

The character that is a pictogram of two folded pages held with
a thread going through, isn't it? Mandarin ce4 if I remember.

You know, I am becoming skeptical. Or tempted to argue that
"cheque" is a Chinese loan too. After all, a _cheque_book
looks and sounds like that character too.

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