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In the Yogachudamani Upanishad Bindu is a duality, with a white Bindu representing shukla (pure) and a red Bindu representing maharaj . The white Bindu resides in the bindu visarga and is related to Shiva and the Moon, while the red Bindu resides in the muladhara chakra and is related to Shakti and the Sun. [4]
In the later written language, the diacritic used to represent anusvara was optionally used to indicate a nasal stop having the same place of articulation as a following plosive, which was written in some evolved scripts (e.g. in Bengali-Assamese) as an additional sandhi letter (no longer as a diacritic) for Vedic transcriptions of Sanskrit, to ...
Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...
The Rakuyōshū text comprises 108 folios (chō 丁 "leaf of paper, folio; block") in three parts, succinctly described by Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa. (1) A 62-folio section consisting of (a) the Rakuyōshū proper, which is a listing of Chinese-Japanese characters (kanji) and compounds arranged in terms of their on pronunciations, that is, the pronunciations borrowed into Japanese from Chinese ...
Japanese jikeibiki collation by radical and stroke ordering is standard for character dictionaries, and does not require a user to know the meaning or pronunciation beforehand. The third Chinese system of ordering by pronunciation is evident in a rime dictionary , which collates the characters by tone and rime .
An example of Japanese sound symbolism, 'Tah-dah!' (ジャーン!, Jān!) The Japanese language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones. [1] [2] Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese. [3]
Ruby characters or rubi characters (Japanese: ルビ; rōmaji: rubi; Korean: 루비; romaja: rubi) are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of logographic characters of languages in the East Asian cultural sphere, such as Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, and Korean hanja, to show the logographs' pronunciation; these were formerly also used for Vietnamese chữ ...
Bindu (Sanskrit: बिंदु) is a term meaning "point" or "dot". Bindu may also refer to: Bindu (symbol), a point symbol in Indian religions; Bindu, India, village in Darjeeling district of West Bengal India; Anusvara, a diacritical mark in Indic scripts represented as a bindu or dot; Nuqta, diacritical mark in Indic scripts represented as ...