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Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

by thierry.depaulis@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thierry Depaulis) Oct 17, 2004 at 11:40 PM

Julian Bradfield <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:<e6cvfdkncoo.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...
> Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

> This is doubly interesting: it is the earliest use I've seen of ?
[jiang4]
> `general' rather than ? [que4] `sparrow' as the second word in the
> name, and the only use I know of ? [ma3] `horse' rather than ? [ma2]
> `hemp' as the first. 

The 6-volume Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise,
Paris/Taipei, 2001, knows it too:
"ma3 chiang4 (Jeux) Autre nom du MA2 JIANG4 ma2 chiang4 ou mah-jong."
(vol. IV, s.v. MA3 = "horse")

Cheers,
Thierry




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Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-08 22:05:11 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Tom Sloper" &l  2004-10-09 00:27:20 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Cofa Tsui" <  2004-10-09 08:00:56 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-09 13:17:25 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Tom Sloper" &l  2004-10-09 17:35:17 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-09 21:37:52 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Cofa Tsui" <  2004-10-09 22:25:38 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Tom Sloper" &l  2004-10-10 01:29:55 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Cofa Tsui" <  2004-10-09 07:47:45 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-09 21:34:11 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Cofa Tsui" <  2004-10-09 22:20:22 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Tom Sloper" &l  2004-10-10 01:29:55 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J  2004-10-10 09:02:47 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Cofa Tsui" <  2004-10-10 23:35:15 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 thierry.depaulis@[EMAIL P  2004-10-10 03:47:01 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-10 13:03:46 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 thierry.depaulis@[EMAIL P  2004-10-10 11:01:52 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J  2004-10-10 18:50:20 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 "Cofa Tsui" <  2004-10-10 23:26:04 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 mstanwick@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2004-10-10 13:01:25 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 mstanwick@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2004-10-10 14:03:38 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-11 12:24:12 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-11 12:33:26 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 d_lau@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2004-10-12 08:19:20 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 tomster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-10-12 21:02:17 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in
 Julian Bradfield <jcb@  2004-10-16 21:30:33 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 mstanwick@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2004-10-20 14:52:32 
Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in C
 thierry.depaulis@[EMAIL P  2004-10-17 23:40:35 

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