Talk:輕

Vietnamese

http://www.petrus-tvk.com/ChuThich.html needs to be checked to verify Vietnamese. 24.29.228.33 19:16, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Done. 24.29.228.33 19:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Why does the character use 车字旁?

The glyph origin tries to explain the 车 component by writing 'light carriage'.

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰeŋ, *kʰeŋs): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 巠 (OC *keːŋ)-light carriage.

I think that some clarification needs to be made about what 'light carriage' is trying to say in this context: it's not an attmept to define 轻, it's an attempt to rationalize the semantic component. Here's my rough attempt:

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰeŋ, *kʰeŋs): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 巠 (OC *keːŋ). Explanation of semantic component: light carriage.

--Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:19, 20 February 2018 (UTC)