Talk:唐朝

Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese needed. 24.29.228.33 02:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

朝 (Fanqie reading: 直遙切／直遥切, equivalent to "cháo" in modern pinyin) is used mainly as a verb in Middle Chinese with one of the following meanings and is not used as a suffix.

1. to have an audience with the emperor
2. to perform the morning ceremony
3. to go to court
4. to wish elders or seniors good health
5. to visit a senior person

In Classical Chinese, the word 唐 is understood to refer to the Tang dynasty. Hence, the Middle Chinese reading has been omitted from this entry. KevinUp (talk)