A few Kunming signs

"造成事故後果自負" took me a while to parse, for some reason. I assume it means something like

[you will be] responsible for any accident that [you] cause

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Thanks for an easy one after some of the recent ones. "馨" was new to me, but that was it.

I was really expecting 馨 to be xiang of some flavor. I was surprised to see it's xīn.

At least according to MDBG, 香 is the radical, 殸 is the phonetic. Interestingly enough, 殸 itself is pronounced qing4, and the only other common word with 殸 as the phontic (that I could find) is 聲, which is pronounced sheng1.

The Taiwanese MOE's dictionary agrees with that classification. I checked the cantodict too, and it seems the readings aren't any more consistent in Cantonese. They aren't in Japanese, either, for that matter.

I used to get it confused with 薯, embarrassingly enough.

Well, they can be fragrant.

I checked the cantodict too, and it seems the readings aren't any more consistent in Cantonese.

I am not aware of inconsistency in the Cantonese pronunciation of 馨. It is simply "hing". Could you explain more?

I assume by "inconsistent", glenn means that the pronunciation of 殸 by itself is different than the pronunciation of characters that use 殸 as the phonetic component, such as 馨 and 聲 (and 䡰).

Well, they can be fragrant.

Especially when you do what we usually do: buy a 5 lb bag, use a couple, and then forget about the rest in our pantry.....

Yes, I mean between 馨 and 聲 and the phonetic component.