Talk:弘法

guhō → Kōbō (Daishi)
, and others not mentioned here, any guess how this pronunciation shift is made to refer to ? ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 03:51, 19 May 2019 (UTC)


 * : The こう reading for is the kan'on, suggesting a re-borrowing from a later stage and/or different dialect of Chinese.  The ぼう reading for  suggests rendaku of the ordinary reading of ほう.  Since ほう is both goon and kan'on, the name こうぼう might have been borrowed in its entirety.  Although no Chinese dialect starts the reading of this second character  with, I do see that both Mandarin and Cantonese have a coda consonant of  for the first character , followed by  or  as the initial consonant for the second character, and this combination may have led to the rendaku in the Japanese borrowing.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 18:06, 20 May 2019 (UTC)