> Some researchers have been known to use Korean pronunciations of words to help triangulate to what ancient Chinese characters would sound like That is rather

> Some researchers have been known to use Korean pronunciations of words to help triangulate to what ancient Chinese characters would sound like That is rather an exaggeration. Korean and Japanese can be used as guides for Middle Chinese pronunciation, but they aren’t all that useful compared to using China’s own rhyme tables and running the comparative method on the Chinese dialects. For stages of Chinese before Middle Chinese, neither Korean nor Japanese are useful at all.