Hi, Rafeal,
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Rafael Humpert wrote:
> hi,
>
> the character u+6784 is listed in the Unihan Search Page with a Mandarin
> pronunciation of gou1. However, the corresponding complex writing form
> of u+69cb is spelled gou4, which is what I believe correct.
>
> What gives? Is there a mistake?
>
It's not that uncommon for characters to have more than one pronunciation.
One situation is a character having one pronunciation when used as a
surname and another when used otherwise in the language. For this
particular character, I don't happen to know the origin of the two
different pronunciations (and don't have my Chinese
dictionary here at work).
> Regards,
>
> Rafael Humpert
>
>
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