Talk:唐朝

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


 * (:, 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.
 * to have an audience with the emperor
 * to perform the morning ceremony
 * to go to court
 * to wish elders or seniors good health
 * to visit a senior person
 * In Classical Chinese, the word is understood to refer to the Tang dynasty. Hence, the Middle Chinese reading has been omitted from this entry. KevinUp (talk)