[Buddha-l] Question about Chinese orthography

Jim Peavler jmp at peavler.org
Thu Jul 3 11:39:19 MDT 2008


On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:46 -0400, Dan Lusthaus wrote:
>
>> That's the problem with learning Zen in its Korean or Japanese  
>> incarnations.
>> They go "mu." In Chinese the word is pronounced "Wooooo" -- much more
>> exhilirating.
>
> How was "wu" pronounced in Zhaozhou's time? Woof?
>
> I like the Vietnamese pronunciation: Vu! (In French that's Vous; in
> English, You.)

Where I am from it is "Who?".
>
>
> -- 
> Richard
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