Talk:溪東

Qīdōng

@Geographyinitiative I don't think the romanization used in the map has indicated any tones. How do you know 溪 is pronounced as qī (rather than qí, for example)? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 07:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung Hey. I am interested that you would ask this question. At this time, I (and Wiktionary's 溪 page?) are only aware of a qī reading here. I do not have any direct information on a potential qí reading, hence I assume it would likely be qī here. This one of the rare characters that Xiandai Hanyu Cidian gives a 旧读 to- qī. Cihai has qī as a 旧读 too. "（又音）ㄑㄧ" [1] No character with this phonetic is read as qí in Mandarin as far as I know, but there are a few read as qī. Ctext: [2] The Min Nan/Taiwanese Hokkien for this is khe / khoe [3], both first tone, and when something is first tone in Hokkien, it is very often first tone in Mandarin. I'll admit that's probably not enough to prove the case for sure and I don't have the perspective that you have to be able to know about variant readings, but I don't see 'qí' anywhere at this time. Is that enough to prove my case? I don't really think so (not 100%), but I'm so close to thinking it proves my case that I went ahead and added the variant reading. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 08:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: Okay, I think this is pretty good evidence. I should've looked around before asking you. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 08:11, 3 March 2020 (UTC)