Nie Hongyin

Biographic Data

ID9049321
NAMENie Hongyin
GIVEN NAMESNie
FAMILY NAMEHongyin
SIGNATUREHONGYIN N
AFFILIATIONSSichuan Normal University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • The Mixed Homonymic Characters

    Open AccessHongyin Nie, Nie Hongyin et al.ARTICLEWritten Monuments of the Orient2023

    The newly discovered Tangut xylograph Essential Selection of Mixed Homonyms Often-Transmitted is a primer designed to teach beginners over 2000 Tangut characters commonly used in Buddhist scriptures. Referring to various dictionaries and primers, the compilation approach of the booklet is modeled after the Chinese traditional primer entitled Mixed Characters, which was widely circulated at that time, but its notes focus on the interchangeability …

  • Tangut Pillars of Uṣṇīṣavijayā in Baoding Prefecture

    Open AccessHongyin Nie, Nie HongyinARTICLEWritten Monuments of the Orient2023

    In the Park of Lotus Pond in the Baoding city of China, there is a pair of stone pillars of Uṣṇīṣavijayā erected in 1502, which proves to have been the latest Tangut relics existing so far. A textual investigation of their inscriptions indicates that they were built in memory of two monks of the Xingshan Temple, which was first established in the southeastern corner of the city in the 13th c. and repeatedly rebuilt later. After a reconstruction a…

  • Honorific personal pronouns in the Tangut language

    Open AccessNie HongyinARTICLEJournal of Chinese Writing Systems2022

    There is an integral system of personal pronouns in the Tangut language. It is already known that there are pairs of general and honorific pronouns in the first- and second-person singular. Besides narrating the meaning of the honorifics in detail, it is pointed out in the present paper that a parallel distinction exists in the first-person plural as well, and if more than two pronouns of the same person appear successively in one phrase, only th…

  • A Unique Tangut Primary Reader Brief Collection by Taizong kept in the IOM RAS

    Open AccessNie HongyinARTICLEWritten Monuments of the Orient2020

    The previously undesiphered manuscript inv. No 5875 preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, proves to be the Tangut version of a primary reader. Its Chinese original is an inconsistently miscellaneous compilation of ancient literary allusions and contemporary folk maxims. The text is composed by different literary style of antithetical couplet and ordinary prose without a consistent subject. Although its C…

  • Graph omission and abbreviation in Tangut script

    Open AccessNie HongyinARTICLEJournal of Chinese Writing Systems2018

    In a few Tangut manuscripts there are eight omitted graphs used for explaining the character structures and three abbreviations used for transcribing the Tibetan word badzra or Sanskrit word vajra. The latter were formed by merging two or three parts of standard graphs so as to record polysyllables or consonant clusters in other languages. The usage of this method to create new characters, though originating from an ancient tradition and being oc…

  • Loloish dialect and script of 18th century Liangshan reflected in the Luoluo Yiyu

    Open AccessHongyin Nie, Nie HongyinARTICLEJournal of Chinese Writing Systems2018

    In the Qing compilation Luoluo Yiyu there are preserved precious materials of the Loloish language and script of mid-18th century Liangshan. The version in Ōtani University has proved to be the definitive edition for Imperial reading, but as the last copyist was not literate in Loloish, his writing forms and glyph arrangements were influenced by Chinese instead of Lolos. Some entries in the Luoluo Yiyu can be successfully deciphered according to …