Talk:Zhizhi

Chanyu is preferable to Shanyu

I will go through the article and change the title 'Shanyu' to 'Chanyu' throughout (except in quotes). The reason is that the Guangyun, a dictionary compiled in 601 CE by Lu Fayan, and completed during the Song dynasty, gives three readings for the first character of this title [i.e. Chanyu]: dan, chan, and shan. The form chan is specifically mentioned as being used in the Xiongnu title Chanyu. The reading shan is used as a place or family name; the reading dan means 'single' or 'alone.' Also see, for example: "Early Chinese Settlement Policies towards the Nomads." Pan Yihong. Asia Major, 3rd series, Vol. V, Part 2, (1992), p. 42, n. 2; Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese and Early Mandarin, p. 48. (1991). Edwin G. Pulleyblank. UBC Press. Vancouver; Indo-Scythian Studies being Khotanese Texts Volume VII, p. 32. H. W. Bailey. Cambridge University Press. John Hill (talk) 03:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Sources

Xiongnu shanyu zhizhi's (chih chih) death in 36 BC

http://books.google.com/books?id=k4IXwl-jVGMC&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=S1eqO3Z1rgEC&pg=PA146#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=afZnn1NRxIAC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=afZnn1NRxIAC&pg=PA69#v=onepage&q&f=false

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http://books.google.com/books?ei=5ESwUJq0GtDV0gGWhoHgAw&id=VgzbAAAAMAAJ&q=armour+top+tower#search_anchor

Page 189

http://books.google.com/books?id=CL5xAAAAMAAJ&q=ZhiZhi+Chen+Tang#search_anchor

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Rajmaan (talk) 16:51, 27 January 2013 (UTC)