A Full Inspection on Chinese Characters Used in the Secrete History of the Mongols

摘要

The Secrete History of the Mongols (SHM) is a special Mongolian historical document transliterated with Chinese characters as phonetic symbols, which feature causes many multivariate analyses in later ages. The discussion of this paper mainly focuses on the data of used Chinese characters, the frequencies, and the rules of transliteration on SHM, All the statistic data and the analysis are based on the electronic text of SHM, which provides those important data in an all-round way, including the whole Chinese-transliterated characters, aligned Chinese glosses by the side of Chinese-transliterated characters, and Chinese translational paragraphs. Furthermore, four types of Chinese characters as phonetic symbols and their statistic information have been discussed, which are type C, xC, Cy, and xCy as in the main body of the text: 安, ~中豁, 阿_勒, and ~舌鲁_黑. Shortly, this statistics is so far the most completed inspection on the text of the Secrete History of the Mongols.