L2/03-285

Title: Submission of kHYPLCDPF data for inclusion in Unihan.txt
Contributor: Richard Cook
Date: August 24, 2003

It is proposed that selected data from <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian>
1st edition 1986, 2nd printing 1990 (ISBN 7-5619-0094-5/H.67)
[Modern Standard Beijing Chinese Frequency Dictionary] be added to
Unihan.txt under the field name "kHYPLCDPF" (Hanyu Pinlu Cidian Pinyin
and Freqency).

This data derives from a 440,799 character corpus, cutting across 4
linguistic genres ("News", "Scientific", "Colloquial", and
"Literature"). The kHYPLCDPF electronic data provided to the Unicode
Consortium, excerpted and adapted from the print source, presents
pinyin pronunciations and frequencies for 3,800 common Modern Standard
Beijing Chinese characters. This data has been proof-read over a number
of years, and is in very good condition. It may be useful to Unicode
implementers, particularly those designing Mandarin input methods. It
may also prove useful to the subsetting issue currently before the IRG,
and for this reason it is suggested that the IRG be made aware of this
data, once it is added to Unihan.txt.

Links to the data are as follows:

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rscook/UTC/kHYPLCDPF-20030204/kHYPLCDPF-header.txt

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rscook/UTC/kHYPLCDPF-20030204/kHYPLCDPF.txt

Please see the file `kHYPLCDPF-header.txt' for additional description
of the data.

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Richard S. Cook
UC Berkeley Linguistics Dept.