Guest guest Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 Hi All, & Gerry Gerry wrote: > There are two words look very similar to each other: " ? " (Lian) and " ? " > (Jian)?Lian means converge, shrink, or reduce. To me, it makes more > sense when it is used with the word " chuang " (ulcer) then " Jian " . So > this could be a pronouncation of a typo? The phrase " ?? " (Jian-Chuang) > is very seldom used, on the other hand, " ?? " (Lian-Chuang) is very > commonly seen in TCM discussion. Many thanks. That sounds good. Indeed the hanzi terms for Lianchuang (with the other terms with which Jianchuang was used) are common on WWW. Best regards, Quote
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