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| | MonkeyFilter | Ch-ch-ch-changes |
 | | As I recall, the phoneme that is now pronounced as (something resembling) J was the subject of a fairly recent pronunciation change, before which it was more like K. So, whilst Beijing was never 'pee king', it was once 'beiking' (and the pinyin b is really an unaspirated P, not a B as such). |
 | | Like wow, man, I was into the I Ching back in the 70s in a dilettante way, shortly before I got into astrology. |
 | | According to Taoist master Alfred Huang's translation of the I Ching, the ideographs traditionally associated with the "gua" (the hexagrams and corresponding fortunes) are from an ancient Chinese script called jin wen dating from the Zhou dynasty. |
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