Talk:Zhu Zhenheng

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Did you know... that according to Chinese physician Zhu Zhenheng, apparent possessions are typically no more than confusion caused by mucus?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that according to Chinese physician Zhu Zhenheng, apparent possessions are typically "no more than confusion caused by mucus"?
- ALT1: ... that Chinese physician Zhu Zhenheng failed his civil examinations twice, even though they were largely based on Zhu Xi's teachings, and he was taught by Zhu Xi's fourth-generation disciple?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Van den Berg–Kesten inequality

Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 20:23, 20 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Article new and long enough, well-referenced. Can't access the source in question so I will AGF. No copyvio, QPQ done. Good to go. Juxlos (talk) 03:19, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Courtesy name Dax"

The first sentence in the current version specifies his name as "Zhu Zhenheng (Chinese: 朱震亨; pinyin: Zhū Zhènhēng; 1282–1358),^[1] courtesy name Dax (Chinese: 丹溪; pinyin: Dāx)...". I'm puzzled by this rendering: "Dax" doesn't look like pinyin-romanized Mandarin; it looks like it's pronounced [daks], with a distinctly non-Chinese syllable, and a reading like [daɕ] would still have a non-Mandarin final in the syllable. Looking up the characters on Wiktionary, the pronunciation of 丹溪 would instead be pinyin: Dānxī, Mandarin pronunciation: [tän⁵⁵ɕi⁵⁵] (maybe with tone sandhi or something, I don't actually speak Chinese).

So, what happened here? Does the name actually have such a weird (for Mandarin) syllable in it? Or is this a case of where the name in Western sources is quite different from the name as pronounced in Chinese (cf. Confucius, pinyin: Kǒng Fūzǐ)? In that case, shouldn't the pinyin rendering of 丹溪 follow the Chinese pronunciation of those characters, rather than a western pronunciation? oatco (talk) 15:36, 12 January 2023 (UTC) oatco (talk) 15:36, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

oatco "what happened here" = silly vandalism, plain and simple... KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 18:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, makes sense. Should've checked history, whoops ;) oatco (talk) 22:20, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

^ Simonis 2015, p. 55.

[FOOTNOTESimonis201555-1] Simonis 2015, p. 55.

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