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There's a tongue twister in Chinese with all characters pronounced "shi".[1][2] Hmm, I don't know Japanese grammar, but if those characters are Chinese ones, yo
by echaozh 10y ago
There's a tongue twister in Chinese with all characters pronounced "shi".[1][2] Hmm, I don't know Japanese grammar, but if those characters are Chinese ones, you can almost write something like that with these characters. 秋收 and 修習 are legitimate words for starter.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
[2] https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-sg/%E6%96%BD%E6%B0%8F%E9%A3%9F%E7%8D%85%E5%8F%B2 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-sg/%E6%96%BD%E6%B0%8F%E9%A3%9F%E...
- FabHK 10y agoAll characters are pronounced "shi" in Mandarin, with 4 different tones, leaving 4 distinct pronunciations. In other "dialects", such as Cantonese or Teochew, the characters are pronounced as 7 or distinct syllables, with 6 different tones, leaving more than 20 distinct pronunciations. Mandarin has very few available syllables compared to other languages (not only, say, English, but also older Chinese "dialects").