Chen Li (Qing scholar)

Chen Li ( Chinese 陳澧 , Pinyin Chén Lǐ , 1810-1882) was a Chinese linguist and Confucian scholar of the Qing Dynasty . Among other things, he analyzed the Fanqie in the Chinese dictionary Guangyun . In doing so, he determined which initial and final characters represent the same sounds, thereby listing the initial and final sounds of the underlying system. The same was repeated in the 20th century by the Swede Bernhard Karlgren (1889–1978), who used it to reconstruct Middle Chinese . At the time, however, Karlgren had no idea about Chen Li's work.

Individual evidence

^ Göran Malmqvist: Chinese Linguistics . In: Giulio C. Lepschy, Anna Morpurgo Davies (eds.): History of linguistics . tape 3 . Longman, London 1994, ISBN 0-582-09493-3 , pp. 1-24, especially pp. 19-20 .

personal data
SURNAME	Chen, Li
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	c = 陳澧 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese linguist and Confucian scholar of the Qing Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	1810
DATE OF DEATH	1882

[1] Göran Malmqvist: Chinese Linguistics . In: Giulio C. Lepschy, Anna Morpurgo Davies (eds.): History of linguistics . tape 3 . Longman, London 1994, ISBN 0-582-09493-3 , pp. 1-24, especially pp. 19-20 .