Study On The Zhuo An Yun Wu

Zhuo An Yun Wu is an important rime book in the history of modern Chinese phonology,Which covers rich content of dengyun(a term used in ancient Chinese phonology), and the rime diagrams were made meticulously from all sides of the pronunciations. Although previous scholars have discussed about the nature of ZhuoAn Yun Wu,their studies are not detailed,and the research of the phonological nature was not complete at all. Therefore it is meaningful to make an all-round study Zhuo An Yun Wu to the morden phonological systerm.This thesis is made up of five parts.Part one : introduction of the life of the author,zhao shaoji,and different versions of Zhuo an yun wu.Part two : layout of Zhuo an yun wu.the terminology,methods of analysis sounds segments,theories of making diagrams are introduced in this part.there: are ten terms in the book,such as Hu (breathe out) , Ying (Echo) , Xi (breathe in) , Sheng (Consonant) , Yun (Rime) , Jing (Longitude), Wei (Latitude), Fen (Divide),He (Merge). Zhao analyed the sounds segmentsinto three parts. There are there kinds of diagrams in this book: Yunmu diagrams, Huisheng diagrams and Huiyun diagrams. The standards of the diagram making also are described.Part three, the initial system. The 19 initial classes of Zhuo An Yun Wu is reconstructed and a table of the initials is listed according to Shi Yao. Several questions about the initials were discussed such as palatalization, the two groups of Jing(精) and Jian(见) were not palatalized. Voiced initials disappeared, Wei(微) existed nominally but in fact has merged with the zero initial. Zhi, Zhuang and Zhang have merged into one group completely. Er (而尔二) kept the Ri initial.Part four: rime system. The rime system was reconstructedand several problems about rimes are discussed in this part. Zhao analysed the glide in unique way, announcing that existed clearly as glides. The coda [-m] has developed into the corresponding previous nasal coda [-n]. Ru tone coda existed on the name, but appeared in other diagrams, too. Zhao is the first scholar who written the colloquial "Er" rime into the phonology book formally. Some closed mouth rime appeared in opened mouth rimes.Part five, the tone system is studied and reconstructed in this part, the nature of Zhuo An Yun Wu According to the preceding five parts, we can know the nature of Zhuo An Yun Wu belongs to the mandarin phonology system.