User:Excusememoi/Chinese sound correspondences


 * woj, 桓 -wan and 魂 -won.
 * In the third division "independent" category, labial onsets are paired with hekou rimes.
 * In the third division "mixed" category, labial onsets are paired with hekou rimes, except for 之 -i and 蒸 -ing.
 * In the third division "with chongniu" category, labial onsets are paired with kaikou rimes.

The rimes were, later on, grouped into categories called she (攝) based on similarity to each other.

Rimes:


 * This table is organized according to Baxter's notation. The actual MC vowels continue to be debated.
 * Some rimes occur only in the departing tone (qusheng). These are marked with "-H", Baxter's notation for that tone.
 * -p, -t and -k rimes are implied for -m, -n and -ng rimes, respectively.
 * The pair of 嚴 -jæm and 凡 -jom, which are classified as kaikou and hekou respectively, are actually in complementary distribution, the former coming after velar onsets and the latter after labial onsets.
 * Baxter analyzes the rimes of 庚 jæng and 清 jeng as forming a chongniu type-B / type-A pair. He also classifies 幽 iw rimes as a "chongniu" type rime that has only type-B rimes in it, on the basis of the placement and description of the 幽 iw rime in the rime books.

Permissible onset-rime combinations ("no" does not necessarily mean that there are no characters given in those combinations in the rime books, but that such exceptions are so sparse and/or obscure that they are possibly exceptions/mistakes):


 * Division 1 and 4 rimes occurred in similar environments.
 * Division 3 rimes could occur in the most environments, and were also the most frequent (over 50% of characters).
 * The dental stops (t, th, d) were in complementary distribution with the retroflex stops, retroflex sibilants, and palatal sibilants.

Some of the onset-rime combinations attested in rime books correspond to extremely rare characters. Owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the pronunciation of those characters in modern languages, the modern reflexes of those combinations have been omitted (for now). Accordingly, those combinations are not included in the "Distribution" columns of the following charts.