Re: Chinese dictation

From: André Keshav (andre_dumarc_at_hhotmaill.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:25:26 +0100

"Lee Sau Dan" <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

| Chinese is a very mnemonical script, just like English. English
| spellings show _hints_ about the pronunciations; so does Chinese
| characters.
|
| Richard> Do you say the radical or phonetic element separately,
|
| No.
|
| Richard> or use the stroke count, or what?
|
| How come stroke count enters this picture? We don't count the strokes
| when we write or dictate. Do you count the length of words when you
| write English?

But if someone is commenting on specific hononyms in Chinese, how would he
refer to them?

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